Episode 165: Apes With iPhones, Facing Superintelligence | K.G.I. Podcast

This week Tesla’s new Roadster flipped in midair, and like millions of people, I was excited. But under the excitement came a strange unease. Not about the car, but about a technological revolution we can’t stop and can’t keep up with. My AI agents talk like people. Rogue agents roam the digital world like an alien civilization we barely notice. If you don’t use AI, you lose to someone who does, and eventually the one who uses AI loses to AI. The real danger isn’t superintelligence. It’s us. Superintelligence will amplify what’s already inside us, because we are the same as we were hundreds of years ago, just with fancy gadgets. Apes with iPhones. And when the moment comes, I’m afraid we will be the aggressors, not It. An AI that studies its creator until it can’t tell the two apart is the story of my novel Mythos. My book Mythos: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/59jRb4McV1P75uLDTy53DK Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1893216528 Essays between episodes → https://kirillkhrestinin.substack.com My Work: https://kirillkhrestinin.com #KGI #AI #superintelligence #technology #philosophy