The cries have been coming from inside the house. Employees at the biggest A.I. firms, blowing the whistle on the belief in the industry that artificial intelligence poses a great threat to humanity, not in a potential future, but right now. They were quickly followed by the heads of some of those same companies, such as Anthropic, begging the U.S. government to regulate their industry. U.S. President Trump said no, leaving the future of AI, and maybe even humanity, uncertain.Host Mike Eppel is speaking with Richard Lachman, professor at the RTA school of media at Toronto Metropolitan University, and author of Digital Wisdom, Searching for Agency in the Age of A.I, about the concerns being raised by industry, how valid they are, and what, if anything, anyone can do about it.
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The cries have been coming from inside the house. Employees at the biggest A.I. firms, blowing the whistle on the belief in the industry that artificial intelligence poses a great threat to humanity, not in a potential future, but right now. They were quickly followed by the heads of some of those same companies, such as Anthropic, begging the U.S. government to regulate their industry. U.S. President Trump said no, leaving the future of AI, and maybe even humanity, uncertain.

Host Mike Eppel is speaking with Richard Lachman, professor at the RTA school of media at Toronto Metropolitan University, and author of Digital Wisdom, Searching for Agency in the Age of A.I, about the concerns being raised by industry, how valid they are, and what, if anything, anyone can do about it.

The Age of AI Doomerism

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