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A Futurist's Warning: "Work Is About to Break" | Amy Webb

[Amy Webb](https://amywebb.io), the quantitative futurist who runs [Future Today Strategy Group](https://ftsg.com) and teaches strategic foresight at [NYU Stern](https://www.stern.nyu.edu), sits down with [Peter McCormack](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrWKkFIRS0kjZf7x24GdGg) in New York for roughly ninety four minutes to argue that work itself is about to break. Her thesis is not that a particular job vanishes in thirty six months. It is that the operating system of society is being rewritten underneath us, because the technologies arriving now, [AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifici

AIBusinessCareerJul 9, 2026

1:40:01

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"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" - Nate Soares

Nate Soares, president of MIRI, lays out the thesis of his book with Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: AI companies are racing to build machines smarter than any human, those machines are grown rather than programmed, nobody knows how to make them care about us, and the likely result is extinction by indifference rather than malice. Peter McCormack tests the argument rather than nods along, pressing on the alignment problem, the point of no return where AI can turn us off before we can turn it off, and the safety thresholds every other industry lives by. The interview's sharpest move lines up the 10 to 25 percent chance the AI CEOs themselves quote against the tiny fractions of a percent the FDA, NASA, and the Manhattan Project treat as unacceptable. Soares walks through documented lab misbehavior, the simulation argument, and the Fermi paradox, then argues winning looks like a Cold War style treaty that halts the race to super intelligence while keeping consumer AI. His closing image: the bus is heading for a cliff, but the driver is asleep, so do not give up before the driver wakes.

AIPhilosophyBusinessJun 29, 2026

1:20:39

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We Are Living Inside a Simulation To Test AI | Roman Yampolskiy

Roman Yampolskiy is one of the world's most outspoken AI safety researchers, and he opens this conversation with Peter McCormack by saying the quiet part loud: you are a simulation of a human, a very believable one, and he says it with a smile. The hook is not idle provocation. Yampolskiy's claim is that the single most likely reason you are alive at this exact moment, watching humanity stand on the lip of the singularity, is that this whole world is a test environment built to study how a civilization handles the creation of intelligence greater than its own.

AIPhilosophyMay 12, 2026

1:54:15

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Andrew Wilson: "A Lot of People Are Really F***ing Dumb"

Peter McCormack, the British Bitcoin podcaster, sits down with American political commentator Andrew Wilson and lets the conversation run almost two hours without guardrails. The framing question is simple and modern: why does life feel like it is not working anymore? Wilson's answer is a chain. Politics is downstream of culture, culture is downstream of theology, and the West, in his telling, has hollowed out the theology, so everything above it is sliding.

CulturePoliticsApr 28, 2026

2:04:13

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Who Really Runs the World? | Simon Dixon

[Simon Dixon](https://www.simondixon.com), the former [London Stock Exchange](https://www.londonstockexchange.com) market maker who quit banking in 2006, wrote [Bank to the Future](https://www.simondixon.com) in 2011 and co-founded the Bitcoin securities platform [BnkToTheFuture](https://bnktothefuture.com), spends two hours and four minutes with [Peter McCormack](https://www.petermccormack.com) arguing that Western political dysfunction is not chaos but structure. His load bearing claim is monetary: money is created as debt, the interest to repay it was never created, so the system survives only by rolling debt forward and finding the next borrower. Everything else follows, in his telling, from that one mechanism: why the [IMF](https://www.imf.org) always releases the next tranche, why governments end up with the liabilities while corporations end up with the assets, why the asset managers who vote your pension shares matter more than the politicians you vote for, and why he calls this the asset stripping phase. He is emphatic that it is not a cabal, saying "there is no one on top", and he follows the ownership chain from executive to board to shareholder to [BlackRock](https://www.blackrock.com) to refute the ethnic conspiracy narratives his own audience gets served. McCormack pushes back throughout and closes with the best test in the episode: even if Dixon is wrong about the geopolitics, the living standards trend and the recommended response are unchanged. This page rebuilds the whole conversation in order with every claim attributed, and separates documented mechanism from interpretation in a closing section.

BusinessPoliticsPhilosophyJan 8, 2026