{"podcast":{"title":"For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast","slug":"for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast-6669100","podcast_index_feed_id":6669100,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/5979336/s/261561.rss","website_url":"https://theairisknetwork.substack.com/s/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5979336/s/261561/54666450f7ec2d2c5e41bf6e2b3f9036.jpg","author":"The AI Risk Network","episode_count":125,"summary":"For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast is the the AI Safety Podcast for regular people. Peabody, duPont-Columbia and multi-Emmy Award-winning former journalist John Sherman explores the shocking worst-case scenario of artificial intelligence: human extinction. The makers of AI openly admit it their work could kill all humans, in as soon as 2-10 years. This podcast is solely about the threat of human extinction from AGI. We’ll name and meet the heroes and villains, explore the issues and ideas, and what you can do to help save humanity.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T14:18:16.201317+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast-6669100"},"episode":{"title":"She Spent 12 Years Fighting Amazon. Now She Wants to Cut the Power to AI.","slug":"she-spent-12-years-fighting-amazon-now-she-wants-to-cut-the-power-to-ai","published_at":"2026-05-02T15:38:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast-6669100/she-spent-12-years-fighting-amazon-now-she-wants-to-cut-the-power-to-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast-6669100","url":"https://theairisknetwork.substack.com/p/she-spent-12-years-fighting-amazon","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196141443/00ca68bbcfde0da8ab106308cdc71301.mp3","summary":"Most people who care about AI risk are focused on what happens inside the models. Elena Schlossberg has spent 12 years focused on what happens outside them - the concrete, the transmission lines, the water, and the electricity bill landing in your mailbox. She founded the Coalition to Protect Prince William County in Northern Virginia after Amazon Web Services quietly proposed a data center campus in 2014 and expected the surrounding community to absorb the cost of the transmission line it required. Not just the visual blight. The actual bill. “Your electric utility can exercise eminent domain over your property,” she told John Sherman on this week’s For Humanity, “and then make you pay for it, because it’s public infrastructure.” What the data center industry found, she argues, is a structural weakness inside public utility law. They build private infrastructure. They socialize the cost. And they’ve been doing it at scale for over a decade. The coalition fought Amazon and Dominion Energy for four years. They proved that 97% of the power from a proposed transmission line would serve Amazon. They developed a cost allocation policy to make the company pay. They lost the first round, kept going, and eventually won. That fight became a template. Data Center Alley is not a local story John opened the conversation by asking where the national movement stands. The answer is: further along than most people realize. Virginia alone has more data centers than China. Prince William County - a single county - has roughly 130 active facilities and another 130 planned. Transmission lines are being routed through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia to feed the demand. Property is being seized in states that will never see the economic benefit. Communities that didn’t vote for an…","meta_description":"Most people who care about AI risk are focused on what happens inside the models. Elena Schlossberg has spent 12 years focused on what happens outside the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3118,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast-6669100/episodes/she-spent-12-years-fighting-amazon-now-she-wants-to-cut-the-power-to-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast-6669100/she-spent-12-years-fighting-amazon-now-she-wants-to-cut-the-power-to-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}