Episode
"The Scramble: getting in position to pace the frontier" by Peter Wildeford
- Published
- Sep 9, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1124
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/the-scramble-getting-in-position-to-pace-the-frontier-by-peter-wildeford/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-scramble-getting-in-position-to-pace-the-frontier-by-peter-wildeford.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Crossposted from my Substack. ~ Suppose the President summons the AI CEOs and his top national security advisors to an emergency meeting at the White House. He has become extremely concerned about superintelligence — the possibility that AIs far smarter than humanity combined slip beyond our ability to correct or shut down. If that happens, there is no way back. The President is concerned humanity could become permanently out of the driver's seat of its own future. He wants to figure o...