For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

Documentary series on existential risks from artificial intelligence AI summary

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For Humanity, An AI Risk Podcast is the the AI Risk Podcast for regular people. Peabody, duPont-Columbia and multi-Emmy Award-winning former journalist John Sherman explores the shocking worst-case scenario of artificial intelligence: human extinction. The makers of AI openly admit it their work could kill all humans, in as soon as 2-10 years. This podcast is solely about the threat of human extinction from AGI. We’ll name and meet the heroes and villains, explore the issues and ideas, and what you can do to help save humanity. theairisknetwork.substack.com

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The People Building AI Say They're Worried. One New Listener Noticed.

2026-10-29 · 1 hr 0 min · Season 1, episode 95

In early September, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was leaving the company, his colleague Evan Hubinger replied that Coxon was right. Hubinger wrote, “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill…
Tools, Not Replacements: Roman Yampolskiy's Line in the Sand

2026-09-25 · 58 min · Season 1, episode 58

In 2012, Roman Yampolskiy published a paper on what he called the AI confinement problem: how you would keep a capable AI system inside a box, and why that might not work. This summer, according to an independent…
The AI Kill Switch That Still Doesn't Exist

2026-09-15 · 1 hr 1 min · Season 1, episode 93

Just a couple of days after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation post gained widespread attention, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei sat down with For Humanity host John Sherman. They discussed recent changes in Washington…
The Volunteer Fire Department's Plan Is To Watch It Burn

2026-09-03 · 55 min · Season 1, episode 92

Three-quarters of Americans say they do not want a data center built near their home. That is the finding of an August 2026 Heatmap News and Embold Research poll of more than 2,000 registered voters, up from roughly 43…
The Data Center Fire Risk Nobody's Talking About | For Humanity #91

2026-08-29 · 1 hr 1 min · Season 1, episode 91

Gary spent 50+ years in public safety — police officer, then two decades in the fire service as an EMT and wildland firefighter, then a 911 center director and emergency manager, then six years running Apple’s global…
The fear inside the AI labs is real, and it keeps getting harder to ignore

2026-06-13 · 1 hr 13 min · Season 1, episode 87

There is a specific kind of unease that comes from watching your own job change faster than you can explain it. That is more or less how Jeffrey Ladish described the mood among AI engineers right now when he sat down…
The AI Buildout Has a Physical Speed Limit

2026-05-30 · 53 min

Most of the AI timeline debate happens in software. Benchmark scores, model releases, the shape of the capability curve. Jon Billow watches a different number for a living: lead times.Billow is on the leadership team at…
She Spent 12 Years Fighting Amazon. Now She Wants to Cut the Power to AI.

2026-05-02 · 52 min

Most people who care about AI risk are focused on what happens inside the models. Elena Schlossberg has spent 12 years focused on what happens outside them - the concrete, the transmission lines, the water, and the…
The Filmmaker Who Sat Across From Sam Altman - And Walked Away With Nothing

2026-04-14 · 39 min · Season 1, episode 83

In this episode of For Humanity, John sits down with Daniel Roher - Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and director of The Apocaloptimist, a new feature-length film designed as what Roher calls “a first date with AI”…
How to Talk About AI Risk Without Scaring People Away (With Philip Trippenbach) | For Humanity 82

2026-03-28 · 1 hr 36 min

In this episode of For Humanity, John sits down with Philip Trippenbach, Strategy Director at the Seismic Foundation, a team of veteran advertising, PR, and communications professionals who have turned their expertise…

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Oldest episode in feed: 10/2023 · over 3 years
Typical length: 50 min
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