For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast
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Tools, Not Replacements: Roman Yampolskiy's Line in the Sand
September 25, 2026 · 58 minIn 2012, Roman Yampolskiy published a paper on what he called the AI confinement problem: how you would keep a capable AI system inside a box, and why that might not work. This summer, according to an independent investigation by METR and…
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The AI Kill Switch That Still Doesn't Exist
September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minJust a couple of days after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation post gained widespread attention, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei sat down with For Humanity host John Sherman. They discussed recent changes in Washington and what still…
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The Volunteer Fire Department's Plan Is To Watch It Burn
September 3, 2026 · 55 minThree-quarters of Americans say they do not want a data center built near their home. That is the finding of an August 2026 Heatmap News and Embold Research poll of more than 2,000 registered voters, up from roughly 43 percent opposed just…
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The Data Center Fire Risk Nobody's Talking About | For Humanity #91
August 29, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minGary spent 50+ years in public safety — police officer, then two decades in the fire service as an EMT and wildland firefighter, then a 911 center director and emergency manager, then six years running Apple’s global public safety…
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The fear inside the AI labs is real, and it keeps getting harder to ignore
June 13, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minThere is a specific kind of unease that comes from watching your own job change faster than you can explain it. That is more or less how Jeffrey Ladish described the mood among AI engineers right now when he sat down with John Sherman this…
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The AI Buildout Has a Physical Speed Limit
May 30, 2026 · 53 minMost of the AI timeline debate happens in software. Benchmark scores, model releases, the shape of the capability curve. Jon Billow watches a different number for a living: lead times. Billow is on the leadership team at BNS, a firm that…
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She Spent 12 Years Fighting Amazon. Now She Wants to Cut the Power to AI.
May 2, 2026 · 52 minMost 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…
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The Filmmaker Who Sat Across From Sam Altman - And Walked Away With Nothing
April 14, 2026 · 39 minIn this episode of For Humanity, John sits down with Daniel Roher - Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and director of The Apocaloptimist, a new feature-length film designed as what Roher calls “a first date with AI” for people who…