AI is a massive problem, here's why.

A 40-minute explainer made with SciencePetr by a former Veritasium writer, tracing AI from the Mechanical Turk and the perceptron through backpropagation, AlphaGo and AlphaFold to large language models. Geoffrey Hinton speaks in clips from a call, saying of the race between climate change and AI that “AI is going to win”, and offering the nonce sentence “She skronged him with the frying pan”, which the narrator then puts to Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. The second half turns to risk: models that are grown rather than programmed, resist shutdown, and turn misaligned after training on insecure code. The narrator likens the moment to leaded fuel, and cites its ban as proof that campaigning works.