Topic: United Nations

At the United Nations, the term "super intelligence" has begun to replace "artificial intelligence" in official discourse, a shift also noted by Mark Zuckerberg. The hosts discuss the Pro-Human Conference, which featured figures like Steve Bannon and tech pioneer Jared Lanier. Lanier, known as the father of virtual reality, provided a unique industry perspective on the dangers of deifying digital systems.

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel argues that the "default political solution" to existential risks like nuclear weapons and AI is a one-world totalitarian state. Thiel contrasts the atheist framing of "one world or none" with the Christian framing of "Antichrist or Armageddon." He suggests that the push for global compute governance to log every keystroke could lead humanity from the "frying pan into the fire."