Superintelligence
Subject in Technology
Superintelligence has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Ezra Klein Show. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Ezra KleinNew York Times Opinion columnist and host of The Ezra Klein Show (diarization also merged one PopCast promo line into this label)
Klein doubts that creating something more intelligent than humans would be good for humanity in the long run.
“should human beings create something more intelligent and capable than they are, in the long run, will that be good for them? Yeah. Probably not”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:40
David RobinsonFormer OpenAI safety-team writer who led system card documentation; Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate and founder of the civil rights nonprofit Upturn
Robinson describes frontier models as grown minds rather than engineered software.
“It is a thing we grew. We did not engineer it. We engineered the systems around it that grew it”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 25:22
Podcasts
- The Ezra Klein Show · 1 episode
Episodes
‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Ezra Klein interviews former OpenAI safety writer David Robinson about why he quit, arguing the AI industry lacks the safety culture its increasingly dangerous models demand.