A lot of people are afraid right now. I’ve lost track of the times OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have announced they lost control of their AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to “pace the frontier” and Bill Gates is warning there’s a non-zero chance that AI will kill billions. The US military has embraced AI and it’s leading to grave mistakes. In Ukraine, an AI-controlled drone has killed three people.

Something is bothering me about all these stories and it’s not the thought that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity. It’s the distance AI has given human designers from the consequences of their actions.

This week on the show Eryk Salvaggio stops by to talk about intentionality, design, AI doom, and the messy way we’re all talking about this new technology. Salvaggio is a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University.

• A bad frame from the jump
• Defining AI
• What the Hugging Face attack was and wasn’t
• Who’s accountable?
• Our anthropomorphic media narrative
• Design vs intentionality
• Language loses its magic
• Spin not marketing
• Geopolitical stakes
• Prompts and outputs
• The future of regulation

Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say

Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ that Destroyed an Iranian School

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Journalist Jasper Craven joins the show today to talk about his new book God Forgives, Brothers Don’t. The book is a deep dive into the history of the American military academy and how it has shaped the country’s conception of manhood. Craven’s investigation led him from Valley Forge to West Point, uncovered a strange 20th century Joe Rogan who changed his name so it sounded like a lion’s roar, and landed him multiple interviews with Graham Platner.

• A brief history of Jasper Craven
• Where lost boys fly
• The Nancy Mace skeleton key
• From West Point to the Citadel
• “The gentleman soldier”
• Army engineers as public relations campaign
• Bernarr Macfadden
• Masculinity, American style
• The Scabbard and the Blade
• Officers versus enlisted
• “Send me”
• “What the military does is create powerful bonds between men.”

God Forgives, Brothers Don’t

The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity

Battle of the Sexes

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The world I grew up in no longer exists. The decades after World War II were boom times for free trade lovers. During the Pax Americana it seemed that most diplomatic problems could be solved by exporting blue jeans and lowering the cost of consumer goods for everyone. But in 2026 trade is a serious weapon and economic policy seems less a path to prosperity and more a weapon for waging war.

On this episode of Angry Planet, Chad P Bown is here to talk about his new book How to Win a Trade War. Bown is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and co-authored the book with journalist Soumaya Keynes. The book is a brisk walk through a history of economic conflict full of humor and history.

• The world according to nerd trade economists
• If we must fight, fight this way
• “It’s a China story”
• Rare earth minerals, magnets, and the weaponization of trade
• What’s the goal of our trade war?
• The Hormuz of it all
• The trade war against China isn’t going great
• China’s delicate dance
• Trade war as precursor to kinetic war
• Some thoughts on robotics and AI

Buy How to Win a Trade War

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