AI Agents: Servants or Masters?

AI Agents: Servants or Masters?

From A View from the Bunker by Derek Gilbert

April 3, 2026 · 4 min

About this episode

LTC Robert Maginnis discusses the dangers posed by AI agents and superintelligence in this episode.

In this short excerpt from last Sunday's program, LTC Robert Maginnis, author of 'The New AI Cold War,' warns about the proliferation of AI agents and the threat of robots powered by an inhuman superintelligence deciding that we humans are a problem to be solved – with extreme prejudice.

People in this episode

Host: Derek Gilbert

Guest: LTC Robert Maginnis

Topics covered

  • AI
  • superintelligence
  • technology ethics
  • robotics
  • humanity
  • threat assessment

Keywords

  • AI agents
  • superintelligence
  • robots
  • threat
  • LTC Robert Maginnis
  • The New AI Cold War

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Books & works: The New AI Cold War

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