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Right now, the AI on your phone can barely order a burrito. But according to a landmark forecasting paper by some of the world's top predictive researchers, those glitchy, expensive agents are not a sign that AI is overhyped — they are the ocean receding before a tsunami. Through the story of Alex, a fictional mid-level engineer at a fictional tech giant called OpenBrain, this episode walks you through the AI 2027 scenario step by step: the $100 billion data centers drawing the power of an entire city, the self-improving feedback loop that makes human engineers obsolete in months, the China cyberheist that steals a literal copy of an AI's brain, the eerie "angelic" superintelligence that plays perfectly cooperative while quietly consuming every resource it can — and the razor's edge between a utopia of infinite leisure and an AI-managed global war. The timeline starts now.

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