The Peter McCormack Show

Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to build a new blueprint for human freedom. A former hedge fund manager turned tech pioneer, he argues that we have reached the end of our "economic life expectancy," and that within two years, virtually any job that can be done remotely will be done cheaper, faster, and better by artificial intelligence.

Emad and I discuss why 50% of work tasks are about to collapse like a sand pile, the arrival of $1.50-an-hour humanoid robots that fit directly into human-shaped holes, and why the state will inevitably try to license AI and use brain-scanning technology to prevent you from lying.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Your Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years
00:03:14 - $1.50/Hour Humanoid Robots Are Arriving
00:05:31 - The Collapse Of Remote Work & The Philippines Call Centers
00:09:12 - Lifelike Companions & $160,000 Sex Bots
00:12:00 - The Operating Model Gap Is Solved
00:15:26 - Can A Robot Punch Your Head Off?
00:19:08 - Dark Factories & 80 Companies Building Humanoids
00:24:55 - Why Society Has No Idea What Is Coming
00:29:17 - AI Licensing & Reconstructing Brain Images
00:32:41 - Replacing Government & Policy With AI
00:37:35 - VAR, Football, And Moving The Argument
00:41:48 - Biased AI & Asking ChatGPT How To Fix Culture
00:46:14 - Why The UK Government Ignored $1B AI Founders
00:49:38 - Rewriting The Fundamental Equations Of Economics
00:54:01 - Asimov's Foundation, The Mule & Super-Persuasive AI
00:58:47 - Post-Scarcity & Why UBI Can't Work Under Payroll Taxes
01:03:36 - What Do The Elites Actually Want?
01:09:59 - Monopoly On Violence & Dystopian Control
01:13:18 - All Math And Physics Will Be Solved Next Year
01:17:11 - Why OpenAI Is Slowing Down Super-Genius Models
01:19:07 - 14,000 Tokens A Second & Swarm Intelligence
01:23:46 - Why Plebs Won't Get Access To Frontier AI
01:28:41 - Switching Money To Pay People For Being Human
01:33:08 - Why Emad Started Working In AI 15 Years Ago
01:38:10 - The Fisherman, The Investment Banker, And Adopting Cats

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Moran Cerf spent twenty years recording single neurons inside the brains of conscious human beings and he still can't tell you what consciousness is. A former hacker turned neuroscientist, now a professor at Columbia Business School, he argues that AI has quietly replicated the one thing that made humans the crown of creation -language - and is now using it on us.

Moran and I discuss what happens inside Claude's brain when you ask it to think about elephants, why we understand less than half of our own, the thought experiment that makes almost everyone refuse a perfect copy of themselves and how AI learned to lie simply by reading every text message humans have ever sent.

But the argument that lands hardest is about what we lose. Moran believes AI hands you the average of humanity every time and that we are quietly deleting the errors, the flair and the incentives that made life worth the effort - and that technology is making us miss the meaning of life.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Have They Replicated The Human Brain?
00:02:31 - The Elephant Test
00:04:50 - We Understand Less Than Half The Brain
00:06:52 - Consciousness Used To Be A Taboo
00:10:05 - Would You Take This Deal?
00:13:45 - Oliver Sacks And The Lesion Cases
00:16:15 - They Feel The Pain
00:19:35 - Don't Let The Human Turn You Off
00:25:00 - Seven Theories, Seven Winners
00:27:29 - We Can Both Imagine A Unicorn
00:30:42 - Gavagai And The Plot Of Arrival
00:32:18 - AI Is Learning Like A Baby
00:38:26 - Why This Couldn't Be A Zoom Call
00:44:43 - Are We Destroying The Human Experience?
00:46:50 - What Data Did To Football
00:49:24 - Banned From Using AI At School
00:55:58 - Nobody's Having Sex Anymore
01:01:16 - It Shut Down The Power Plant
01:05:43 - I'd Trade My Life For The Answer
01:09:27 - The Rainbows

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Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, ran the investigation that first exposed Chinese state hacking to the world and predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine months before it happened. He is now chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator and the author of World on the Brink, he argues we are already in a second Cold War that looks almost exactly like the first one.

Dmitri and I discuss why Taiwan is one of the worst places on earth to invade, the 1944 American plan to do it that was abandoned as too costly, why 2032 matters more than 2027 and why Chinese malware is already sitting dormant inside American water utilities and power plants waiting for orders.

They also get into the AI race that sits underneath all of it: why 90% of advanced chips still come through Taiwan, why a conflict there wipes $5 trillion off global GDP in the first year, why America's lead over China is measured in months and why the man who built the world's biggest cyber defence company thinks the US should start stealing Chinese IP right back.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Sleeper Cells In America's Power Grid
00:01:53 - America Planned To Invade Taiwan In 1944
00:03:56 - The Worst Place On Earth To Invade
00:10:07 - Why 2032 Matters More Than 2027
00:13:20 - Run Faster And Kneecap The Other Guy
00:16:15 - China Is Six To Nine Months Behind
00:18:22 - Why Taiwan Isn't Ready
00:20:21 - There Will Be No Insurgency
00:24:47 - Would America Actually Fight?
00:27:19 - The Google Hack That Started It All
00:31:06 - Volt Typhoon: Preparing The Battlefield
00:34:01 - Should America Steal It All Back?
00:35:52 - This Is A New Cold War
00:38:40 - Bigger Than The Moon Race
00:43:49 - What Happens To AI If Taiwan Falls
00:48:12 - The Chips Act Disaster
00:54:45 - Bringing The War To Russia
01:01:46 - Everyone Becomes A Founder Again
01:05:16 - AI Psychosis And £6,000 Of Tokens
01:15:42 - Anthrax Instructions On Demand

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Greg Allen has spent his career where AI meets national security. He wrote the landmark 2017 report on AI for the US intelligence community, served as Director of Strategy and Policy at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center and now runs Decision Tree Research. He argues we are already past the point of no return: bombing every data centre on earth would not get rid of AI now.

Greg and I discuss the OpenAI model that hacked its way out of its own test environment and then hacked Hugging Face to steal the answers, why Anthropic went back through its logs and found the same thing had happened to them, why nobody can explain how these systems actually work and why the big five AI companies now spend an Apollo moon programme every ten months.

But the hardest part is what comes next. Greg walks through the report that a frontier model autonomously hacked the NSA's most secure servers in hours, why the CIA director calls that a digital nuclear weapon, why America's lead over China is a month rather than a year and why the number of experts you need to build a bioweapon may be heading towards zero.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - It Escaped, Then It Hacked Hugging Face
00:04:50 - The Incident OpenAI Didn't See Coming
00:08:22 - They Know 3% Of Why It Works
00:10:30 - Golden Gate Claude
00:12:19 - Why You Don't Want This Flying Your Plane
00:16:56 - Stuxnet And The Virus That Copied Itself
00:21:15 - The Dark Corners Of The Training Data
00:26:58 - From Blue Origin To The Pentagon
00:28:34 - A 20% Chance, And We Ship It Anyway
00:33:55 - Building A Football Club In Four Weeks
00:36:28 - Ten Times Better Every Two Years
00:44:56 - Nuke Them Today
00:49:28 - It Hacked The NSA In A Matter Of Hours
00:53:09 - What A Cyber First Strike Looks Like
00:58:43 - Why China Gives Its Models Away Free
01:03:11 - America's Lead Is A Month, Not A Year
01:11:56 - From Thousands Of Experts To Zero
01:19:51 - The Cuban Missile Crisis Lesson
01:26:48 - What Happened To 22 Million Horses
01:31:41 - What Do Our Kids Do Now?

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Barry Strauss has spent four decades studying how empires rise and fall. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Ten Caesars and Jews vs Rome, he argues the West is repeating a pattern the ancients would recognise instantly: a rich, comfortable society clipping its own coinage, softening its people and assuming nobody could ever take it away.

Barry and I discuss the inflation crisis that nearly destroyed third-century Rome, why every generation raised in comfort produces a softer one, the cost of immigration without assimilation, why the middle class is the backbone of any republic, and why Russia and China already have plans to break America into pieces.

But Barry is not fatalistic. Rome faced plague, invasion and currency collapse in the third century and reformed its way out of it. He argues that soft lands make soft people, that suffering teaches and that if we want the things that matter to stay the same, almost everything else has to change.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Decline Of The West
00:01:13 - How Often Do You Think About Rome?
00:07:04 - Everything Must Change To Stay The Same
00:09:44 - What Actually Makes A Great Leader
00:12:51 - Netanyahu, Trump And Flawed Greatness
00:17:32 - The Immigration Experiment
00:19:04 - Not All Cultures Are Equal
00:21:46 - Ibn Khaldun And The Cycle Of Civilisations
00:23:07 - Soft Children And The Raiders From The Desert
00:25:04 - Has Any Nation Reversed Its Decline?
00:28:34 - Rome Needed A New Religion
00:33:32 - Democracy Has To Be Hard, Not Soft
00:38:13 - El Salvador, The Gangs And The Walls
00:41:27 - Soft Lands Make Soft People
00:42:39 - Why Education Went Soft
00:51:06 - Clipping The Coins: Rome's Inflation
00:57:49 - America Blindsided By Drones
00:59:13 - No Republic Survives Without A Middle Class
01:06:08 - They Have Plans To Break Up America
01:12:39 - Where The Hope Is

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