Doomed to discuss AI (Changelog & Friends #13)

Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.

Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.

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Featuring:

Jon Evans – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Exadelic on Amazon
Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
A Study: Ancient Egyptians used sound waves in building pyramids
Extropia’s Children Redux - by Jon Evans
The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time
Nick Jones
Dennis E. Taylor

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