{"id":230870,"date":"2026-02-08T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ai-expert-warns-were-close-to-extinction"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:13:03","slug":"ai-expert-warns-were-close-to-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ai-expert-warns-were-close-to-extinction","title":{"rendered":"AI expert warns we\u2019re close to extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPQCaAwfDpk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Connor Leahy discusses the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is \u201cgrown\u201d, the need for a science of intelligence, the effects of AI on work, the radical implications of superintelligence, and what you might be able to do about all of this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecompendium.ai\">https:\/\/www.thecompendium.ai<\/a> 00:00 The AI Race 02:14 CEOs Lying 04:02 The Entente Strategy 06:12 AI is grown, not built 07:39 Jobs 10:47 Alignment 14:25 What should you do? Original Podcast: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \u2022 Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinct\u2026 Editing: <a href=\"https:\/\/zeino.tv\/\">https:\/\/zeino.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Leahy discusses the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is \u201cgrown\u201d, the need for a science of intelligence, the effects of AI on work, the radical implications of superintelligence, and what you might be able to do about all of this. https:\/\/www.thecompendium.ai 00:00 The AI Race 02:14 CEOs Lying 04:02 The Entente Strategy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}