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Start free trial →For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast · AI Research & Frontier Labs · October 2026
Dewayne, a machinist who came to AI risk about six weeks earlier through the book 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies', is reacting to a podcast guest who called the AI race 'Moloch'. He rejects the 'if we don't, someone else will' defense used by AI company leaders.
…goal is to not be sued if you want to be successful and continue gaining power and wealth. Even I know that. Like, so that really struck me that how open and upfront they were about that kind of stuff about how dangerous it potentially was. And made me think maybe they are like sincerely scared.
Yeah.
And I think it's total bullshit. They say, oh, we can't stop because I was listening to a podcast where they had Max Tegmark on. Yeah.
He's great.
Yeah, he's awesome. And he was calling it Moloch, which I'd never heard that word. I guess. I was like, you can call it whatever you want. I mean, it's greed. It's pretty, it's an old, simple word. It's greed. If you say you're worried what you're making is going to kill everybody, like everybody…
It's like there's no such thing as leadership in this world. Like, right. Like, you know, be the example, be model the behavior you want to see and maybe you'll change the world. Like, how hard is this? That's it. That's what's always worked. Like this helplessness. I can't stop myself from this…