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Mailbag XLI: Is AI Going to Wipe Us Out? | AI Extinction Risk, Doomscrolling, Climate Anxiety, Economic Fear, and the Future of Humanity

Podcast: The Observable Unknown · Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

Opublikowano: 2026-09-11

Is artificial intelligence going to wipe out humanity? Could AI cause human extinction within the next ten years? Are we living through the beginning of a global collapse, or are our minds being asked to process so many real and possible threats at once that the future itself has begun to feel like an emergency? In Mailbag XLI of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to listener Sarah F., who writes that she is “scared to death” by what she sees happening in the world. She’s worried about artifi...