Rapid Response: The race no one can win: AI’s anti-human crisis, with Aza Raskin
About this episode
Aza Raskin discusses the implications of the AI race and the risks it poses to humanity.
Big Tech is moving fast on AI. But who's watching out for the rest of us? Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, has spent years sounding the alarm about where the race to build powerful AI is actually taking us. He joins Rapid Response to expose the incentive structures quietly pushing Silicon Valley toward dangerous territory, and to make the case that it's not too late to change course. Raskin also unpacks the significance of Pope Leo XIV's sweeping new encyclical on AI, what China's AI priorities reveal about the global race, and why the hidden assumptions baked into AI systems may be the most underestimated risk of all. Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Guest: Aza Raskin
Topics covered
- AI ethics
- technology race
- human impact
- Silicon Valley
- global priorities
- risk assessment
Keywords
- AI
- humane technology
- Silicon Valley
- Pope Leo XIV
- China AI
- risk
- incentive structures
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Center for Humane Technology, Big Tech, Pope Leo XIV
Places: China
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