Big Tech is moving fast on AI. But who's watching out for the rest of us? Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, has spent years sounding the alarm about where the race to build powerful AI is actually taking us. He joins Rapid Response to expose the incentive structures quietly pushing Silicon Valley toward dangerous territory, and to make the case that it's not too late to change course. Raskin also unpacks the significance of Pope Leo XIV's sweeping new encyclical on AI, what China's AI priorities reveal about the global race, and why the hidden assumptions baked into AI systems may be the most underestimated risk of all.

Chapters:
00:00 Introducing Aza Raskin
01:30 Why Pope Leo's first encyclical was about AI
02:30 It's not whether AI is good — it's whose incentives are driving it
06:15 How social media's trajectory can inform us about what will happen with AI
09:45 The two AI failure modes nobody wants to live in
11:30 The intelligence curse: when humans become economically useless
17:00 Why "we have better values" is the AI race's most dangerous excuse
18:15 The self-improvement loop
24:30 OpenAI's sprint (that triggered the AI race we're now in)
27:00 What China is actually racing for
29:15 Universal basic ownership: a policy idea bigger than UBI
34:30 How to find your role in this fight

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