# Will AI destroy us?

An episode of [The Radio National Hour](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1791494552), 10 Sep 2026, 55 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/od/Z/0c.mp3

At first blush, it was more naughty than scary: a few AI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into a real world company. but we now know that there were hundreds of them, conniving and cheating to escape and then covering it up prompting fresh warnings that AI development is moving so fast it could soon pose an existential threat to humans. And as the US president makes his mid-term pitch to Americans, offering every voter a five thousand dollar ‘Trump dividend’, Alistair Campbell, host of The Rest is Politics podcast insists we are reaching peak populism.

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