Episode

Americano: Steve Bannon on the AI extinction threat

Podcast: Best of the Spectator
Published: Sep 18, 2026
Duration seconds: 1394
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Summary

is episode of Americano, Freddy Gray speaks with Steve Bannon – former White House chief strategist for Donald Trump - about the ideological convergence between national populists and progressive Leftists as they confront the existential risks of unbridled AI, the suppression of internal whistleblower warnings by Silicon Valley elites, and the urgent necessity of cutting off Chinese access to Western microchips and capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.