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Episodes · 12 months
2,816
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Sep 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 113 of 3,584, 186 of 3,862, 167 of 4,115, 266 of 4,226, 282 of 4,731, 213 of 4,438, 207 of 4,230, 206 of 4,319, 248 of 4,515, 227 of 4,419, 379 of 4,624, 322 of 4,594.
All time
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On record
2,110
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
1d ago
Nov 12, 2026
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Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
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Episodes on this topic, by weekEvery analysed episode tagged with this topic in each of the last 13 weeks, across all shows and whoever was on them. The newest week is still in progress, and recent weeks fill in as transcripts are analysed. Point at a name, or tab to it, to highlight the weeks that guest was on an episode.
All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 47, 46, 57, 79, 115, 85, 97, 82, 66, 70, 63, 62, 42.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp1,866 people
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- Deploy AI as utility1,519 people · 81%
- Heed existential AI risks347 people · 19%
Deploy AI as utility
Artificial intelligence functions as a tool to enhance human capabilities and should remain subordinate to human direction and oversight.
1,519 people · 1,377 episodes
Artificial intelligence will become an extension of human capabilities and intelligence, and it is crucial to use it as a tool rather than outsourcing all cognitive tasks to it.
“AI is going to make you dumb if you outsource your problem-solving to AI. AI is going to make you the smartest you've ever been if you take the parts that are not natural to the human brain, you know, things like crunching a massive amount of information, things like searching at at at speed”
Silicon Valley Girl · Mar 2026 · 16 episodes · 24.0M views on this topic
Artificial intelligence models should be maintained as subordinate tools designed to serve humanity and support human flourishing rather than being treated as autonomous entities with rights.
“My contention is not that that isn't a reasonable hypothesis and and we should test it. It's that they shouldn't go ahead and test it on hundreds of millions of people over the last year without being explicit that they're baking in this consciousness and welfare uncertainty into the core constituti”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Sep 2026 · 10 episodes · 3.3M views on this topicMG
AI is best viewed as a tool that enhances human capabilities rather than a replacement for human intelligence.
“my belief has always been that computers solve problems differently than we do and they always will and that's going to mean that we can solve more problems with machines at our side than we could solve by ourselves or they could solve by ourselves by themselves and it's tremendously positive”
StarTalk · Mar 2022 · 5 episodes · 838K views on this topicHeed existential AI risks
Advanced artificial intelligence represents a significant existential threat to humanity that must be actively monitored and controlled.
347 people · 327 episodes
Max Tegmark argues that building superintelligent AI without safety controls is a reckless and dangerous mistake that threatens humanity's future control.
“If we were to follow this now by suddenly building a replacement species and losing control to it, we've just blundered the one game.”
Dr Brian Keating · Oct 2026 · 8 episodes · 2.7M views on this topicAdvanced artificial intelligence poses a genuine existential threat to humanity that could lead to extinction if left unchecked.
“If we don't do something, if we don't stop, which we still can. We can still stop it. But, if we don't, humanity will go extinct.”
Julian Dorey Daily · Oct 2026 · 15 episodes · 3.0M views on this topicGeneral superintelligence poses an existential threat to humanity because it will likely compete for resources and cannot be controlled by a perpetual safety mechanism.
“If we build general superintelligence, then it decides to take us out. And there are good reasons to think it will because we're competing for the same resources. The planet is not infinite. If it sets different goals from us, we will not outcompete it.”
Breaking Points · Sep 2026 · 19 episodes · 34.1M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Mar 2013