Episode

The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse

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Never Post
Published
Sep 17, 2026
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2971
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Summary

After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!?? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse Find Dave Karpf: Website Bluesky Blog New book - Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present Links: Jacob Coxon’s thread (X) Dario Amodei’s response (blog) Lina Khan’s response (X) Sam Alman and Elon Musk’s responses (News18) Cal Newport ( podcast ) Kat Tenbarge ( Spitfire ) Ciaran Martin ( The Economist ) Will Knight ( Wired ) How Much of the Internet is Written With AI? ( Pew ) Young Adults in the US Are Increasingly Wary of AI ( Pew ) Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work ( Reuters ) Pro-Human Assembly ( MSN ) AI Diplomacy (Politico) – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia