What is the one thing that can save us from the inevitable takeover of the world by AI technology? Jon Askonas, assistant professor of politics at the Catholic University of America, joins James Poulos to explore the scary implications of artificial intelligence and the growing fear that it will consume us all. Even more scary, will anyone even be able to control it? China? The U.S.? Or will the world succumb to a fate that parallels that of the "Terminator" universe? Are the AI "doomers" right, or can we preserve our humanity?

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