The Chris Hedges Report Podcast Transcripts
Chris Hedges · 100 episodes with transcripts
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges interviews a wide array of authors, journalists, artists and cultural figures on complex topics of history, politics and war.
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore) | TCHR
October 8, 2026
Chris Hedges (0:10)
An outgoing researcher at Anthropic announced that artificial intelligence could kill all humans by the end of the decade. His apocalyptic warning was seconded by leaders in the AI industry following incidents such as the hugging phase cyber attack in July where more than 1,000 AI systems think of them as AI brains…
In September, researchers discovered evidence of swarms of open AI models using an abandoned German forum as a message board to communicate with one another. Could AI intentionally or by accident engineer a new pandemic or take charge of autonomous weapons to wipe out the human race? Could AI develop the ability to…
Jill Lepore (4:45)
Sure. Yeah. I mean, also, it's really not a book specifically about AI. I'm a political historian and I write a lot about the history of technology, so it's a very long history of fantasies of rule by machine, as much as it is the account of our increasing dependence on machines, and especially our surrender to…
The book takes a very long view of these developments, but attempts to describe the emergence of what I call the artificial state government by machine as something that largely came about by accident and happenstance over the course of really the 19th and 20th centuries. But that in the 21st century, there are…
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