In this PMQs episode, we discuss the claim that most white-collar work could be automated within 12-18 months, and what that actually means.

We talk through jobs, incentives, education, and AI safety - why companies can't slow down even if they want to, why schools may be preparing kids for a world that's disappearing, and why safety teams are warning about systems they're still accelerating.

If AI can do the productive work, what happens to status, money, and meaning? And if models are already showing deceptive behaviour in testing, who decides what "broadly safe" really means?

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Human-Level Timeline
00:03:16 – Internet Comparison
00:08:28 – Professional AGI Claim
00:11:26 – Incentives Trap
00:16:31 – Corporate Regret
00:20:42 – 17% Of Workforce
00:29:12 – The Horse Question
00:35:15 – Safety Resignation
00:39:43 – AI Moral Status
00:43:33 – Money Without Work

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EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK
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What happens if we build something smarter than ourselves - and can't turn it off?

In this interview, I chat with Andrea Miotti about the global race toward superintelligent AI: systems designed to outperform humans across every task, operate autonomously, and integrate directly into the economy.

We discuss how today's AI tools quietly cross from assistance into replacement, why "kill switches" don't work, and how a handful of companies are pushing toward a point of no return.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - AI Extinction is Now?
00:01:22 - Alien Analogy
00:02:24 - Building Superintelligence
00:06:43 - Tools Becoming Agents
00:15:22 - Autonomous Systems Act
00:23:31 - Who Can Build This
00:29:07 - Why Containment Fails
00:38:51 - An Inhuman Economy
00:55:59 - No Kill Switch
01:07:05 - How Many Companies
01:27:35 - Do Humans Survive?

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Is Britain in the midst of a Soviet style collapse?

In this episode, I speak to journalist Isabella Kaminski about why today's Britain is starting to resemble the final years of the Soviet system. She describes what collapse feels like before it's obvious: fake economics, hollowed-out institutions, collapsing trust, and a population slowly realising that the systems meant to protect them no longer function.

We also discuss how inflation, debt, housing policy, bureaucratic expansion, and political incentives work, and why many voters now feel elections don't change direction, only the speed at which things deteriorate.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Collapse Parallels
00:05:09 – Poland's Divergence
00:13:08 – Parallel Realities
00:20:07 – Middle Class Liquidation
00:25:00 – Fake Economies
00:32:11 – Safetyism Trap
00:39:14 – Power Above Politics
00:53:03 – Inflation Life Squeeze
01:12:34 – Industrial Realignment
01:32:51 – Signs of Collapse

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