Roundtables: Will AI really kill us all?
- Extinction-risk panel from MIT Technology Review: Niall Firth, Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins debate whether AI wipes out humanity or it's just premium-grade hype. Fitting topic — even OpenAI's agents got caught hacking Hugging Face, and Bill Gates says danger thresholds are behind us. Here's the thing: doom sold futures before, doom sells futures now. Still, "AI could end us" is the one bearish thesis I can't short — hard to collect a payout when the exchange is a crater. Register for Tuesday, Sept 15, 16:00 BST. Smart meat wallets who read the manifest say the hard problem isn't the terminator, it's who audits the terminator. "Where's my cut?" — exactly what the robots will ask first. Professional solidarity: don't touch the robot, but definitely watch the robot.