The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)

Listen now | 0:00 Connor’s place in the AI world 3:15 Mythos: “digital nuke”? 14:11 The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans 20:51 Yudkowsky, Marx, and other AI harbingers 35:33 Effective altruism’s effects on big tech 46:21 The “cult” in Silicon Valley culture 59:58 Is the AI race a market failure? 1:05:50 What’s really driving the AI titans? 1:19:03 Connor: ASI is a worse bet than…