Artificial Intelligence - TPMS Topic Hub
The Peter McCormack Show's coverage of artificial intelligence - the technology, the labour-market shock, the safety arguments, and the political-economic consequences. Not breathless hype, not blanket dismissal: long-form conversations with the people doing the work, the people warning about it, and the people thinking about what comes next.
The guests below disagree with each other on timelines and severity. They agree that AI is not a discrete event but a continuous reshaping of how knowledge, work, and power get distributed.
Themes the show keeps returning to
The capability gap is widening faster than the regulatory response. Frontier labs are racing past the point of meaningful oversight.
Most "AI safety" is actually labour and security policy in disguise. The interesting questions are about who captures the productivity gains.
Kill switches, alignment research, and pause proposals don't work the way the public assumes they do. AI safety researchers on the show explain why.
AI's impact on monetary and political systems may be larger than its direct labour displacement. Several guests connect AI to the macro thread.
Recent episodes:
#160 — Mark Suman: AI Is Quietly Changing How You Think - Why Apple banned ChatGPT internally and how AI systems learn your thinking patterns.
#155 — AI is Mutating: An Engineer's Warning - A senior engineer on what current AI systems are actually doing under the hood.
#153 — Luke Gromen: Navigating the Age of Debt and AI - Where AI fits in the fiscal-dominance regime.
#152 — Balaji Srinivasan: Money, Debt, Bitcoin and AI - A first-principles view of how AI changes power, capital and politics simultaneously.
#148 — Jeff Booth: When AI and Money Collides - Why AI's productivity gains can't translate into lower prices under the current monetary system.
#147 — Andrea Miotti: The War Against AI Has Begun - AI safety researcher on why kill switches don't work and the race past the point of return.
#137 — Larry Sanger: Will AI Replace Wikipedia? - Wikipedia's co-founder on knowledge, neutrality and what AI does to both.
#123 — Ian Rogers: AI & Quantum — The World Will Be Unrecognisable in 25 Years - A long-horizon view of compounding technological change.
#094 — Max Winga: The 5-Year Countdown to AI Extinction - The case for taking existential AI risk seriously.
#046 — Daniel Priestley: 1,000 Days Until AI Takes Over - The entrepreneurial case for a near-term inflection point.
#011 — Izabella Kaminska: The AI Takeover — Media, Money and the New World Order - Early signal on the political-economic implications.
Begin with #155 'AI is Mutating' for the engineer-level account of where the technology actually is, then #147 Andrea Miotti for the safety-research case, then #148 Jeff Booth for the monetary consequences.