HeyJaredFor Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast
For Humanity, An AI Risk Podcast is the the AI Risk Podcast for regular people. Peabody, duPont-Columbia and multi-Emmy Award-winning former journalist John Sherman explores the shocking worst-case scenario of artificial intelligence: human extinction.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #176 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 29, 2026
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The AI Kill Switch That Still Doesn't Exist (opens the original)
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Just a couple of days after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation post gained widespread attention, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei sat down with For Humanity host John Sherman. They discussed recent changes in Washington and what still remains to be built. With nearly thirty years of experience covering the capital, VandeHei shared a clear vision: an independent body with genuine technical expertise that can review cutting-edge AI models before they are released and has the authority to activate
The Volunteer Fire Department's Plan Is To Watch It Burn (opens the original)
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Three-quarters of Americans say they do not want a data center built near their home. That is the finding of an August 2026 Heatmap News and Embold Research poll of more than 2,000 registered voters, up from roughly 43 percent opposed just a year earlier, in August 2025. Opposition has climbed almost every time it has been measured since. David Senter is watching that shift from the ground. A fourth-generation Texas farmer and president of the American Agriculture Movement (AAM), he has spent cl
The Data Center Fire Risk Nobody's Talking About | For Humanity #91 (opens the original)
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Gary spent 50+ years in public safety — police officer, then two decades in the fire service as an EMT and wildland firefighter, then a 911 center director and emergency manager, then six years running Apple’s global public safety business. Last December, he and his wife co-founded a data center opposition group in Round Rock, Texas, after learning a ninth data center was headed for their town. A few months later, the Sabey Data Center a few miles from his house caught fire. He pulled the fire r
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Apple #176 · US
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