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Cheap Talk is an every-week-or-so international relations podcast with Jeff Kaplow and Marcus Holmes, professors of government at William & Mary.

The Lingo of Our AI Tech Overlords

The public debate over AI and the end of humanity; proposals to slow down AI development and improve safety; the challenges of coordinating domestically and internationally; normal accident theory and the nuclear safety analogy to AI; positive and negative controls and the always/never dilemma; predictions for the end of humanity; and Marcus wonders whether aliens have AI and how that went for them

The Lingo of Our AI Tech Overlords
Jeff Kaplow and Marcus Holmes

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Further Reading:
Dario Amodei. 2026. “We Must Pace the Frontier.”

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