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What Would the AI Apocalypse Look Like? We Went Looking for Answers
37 minutes Posted Sep 17, 2026 at 1:25 pm.
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The debate of whether AI can kill us has been everywhere lately, but how exactly would an actual AI catastrophe look like? This week, the team went looking for answers and found the three real-world scenarios experts worry the most about — including hacked water supplies, bioweapons, and autonomous robots. We also discuss the highlights of Salesforce’s annual conference, where OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei defended their positions on AI safety. Plus — Leah tells us how this backlash against AI has become a rare bipartisan flashpoint, to the point that Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a stage over it this week.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown | WIRED 
Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon | WIRED 
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone | WIRED 
OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal | WIRED 
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