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The world's most famous artificial intelligence company, OpenAI — the creator of ChatGPT — was set up to create a superintelligent AI, while at the same time safeguarding humanity from an omnipotent robot overlord which could enslave us all.
So is an AI apocalypse possible, and with wunderkind CEO Sam Altman in charge, will OpenAI be able to protect us from its own robots?
This is a repeat episode. It was first broadcast on November 30, 2023. You can watch this episode now on YouTube.
We'll be back with new episodes from October 17.
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After years of tension, diplomatic cold shoulders, and mountain skirmishes, both India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping appear to be looking for ways their nations can be friends again.
So what’s changed between the world’s two most populous countries? And what would a closer relationship between India and China mean for the rest of us?
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This month, the US Justice Department unsealed an indictment of two Russian state media employees. It alleges that they were funnelling millions of dollars into the pockets of American YouTubers, known for their contrarian viewpoints and controversial takes on the war in Ukraine. The YouTubers say they are victims of a criminal scheme and did not know they were being paid by Russia. But it’s not the first time that something like this has happened. There’s a long history of foreign adversaries covertly paying Americans to spread fake news to other Americans—it’s a move right out of Nazi Germany’s propaganda playbook.
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The massive infrastructure project NEOM sits in the Saudi Arabian desert, and the jewel in its crown is The Line, a futuristic city which looks insane. The AI-generated ads depict a car-free city, for 9 million people, housed between two mirrors. Despite promises of millions of residents by 2030, the project has been scaled back by 98 per cent. The Line will be more like a dot. So what the hell happened? And was it all just a scam?
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Russia defends its enormous borders with the threat of nuclear war. It’s this threat that has long stopped Ukraine and its allies from attacking Russia on its home turf—there are ‘red lines’ that can’t be crossed without nuclear retaliation. Yet Ukraine just invaded Russian sovereign territory and still, no nukes. Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears to be calling Vladimir Putin’s bluff. It seems the ‘red lines’ were done in red pencil, not red pen. So how does this reshape the war, and what does it mean for Putin?
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It’s a dangerous moment for the Middle East. Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire over the weekend, including attacks on a pretty unique pocket of farmland — an Israeli-annexed area called the Golan Heights. In 2019 then-President Donald Trump broke with the rest of the international community and recognised it as part of Israel. There’s even an Israeli settlement named after him. Now, the world is watching the Golan Heights closely, fearful that fighting there could escalate and become a massive regional conflict.
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A shift is on display at the Democratic National Convention—from fear of Donald Trump to mocking him. After years of arguing Trump is dangerous, the Democratic pick for Vice President Tim Walz is changing the party’s attack strategy, calling their opponents 'weird'. This potential path to victory is not seen as very presidential. But could it work?
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In the early hours of July 31 this year, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran. It's presumed Israel was behind the killing, with reports detailing a complex operation by its spy agency Mossad. So if it was Israel that did this, why did they do it in such an extraordinary manner, and in Iran of all places? The answer tells us a lot about the complex political situation Israel finds itself in, where it feels the need for revenge, but only in a way that doesn’t alienate its allies.
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Since Kamala Harris became his opponent in the race for US president, Donald Trump has argued that she is responsible for a migrant crisis. He says President Joe Biden named her the ‘border czar’, in charge of dealing with the unprecedented number of people attempting to cross the US-Mexico border. It’s a policy area that the Trump campaign hopes will win him the election in November. So what’s real, and what’s fake, when it comes to Kamala Harris and the US border?
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Kamala Harris is the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee for President of the United States. But four years ago, she didn’t even make it to the first primary vote. They needed to pick someone who would beat Donald Trump, and Harris just wasn’t ‘electable’ enough. Whatever that means. So if she wasn’t electable then, is she electable now?
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After weeks of speculation and acrimony, President Joe Biden has abandoned his bid for re-election, and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris to be his successor.
This scenario has happened once before - late in the election cycle, a President bailed out and tried to hand over power to their Vice President. The subsequent chaos at the 1968 Democratic convention is legendary, and is something the party will be desperate to avoid in 2024.
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When 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at former-President Donald Trump on July 13, the American public was ready with conspiracy theories explaining how and why he did it.
And that shouldn’t come as a shock. Most Americans think President John F Kennedy was assassinated as part of a conspiracy, either by the US Government, Cubans, or the Mafia.
They’re primed to believe their government is keeping secrets from them—because it is.
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Last week, the UK Labour Party won the general election in a landslide victory.
In the past four episodes we've detailed the chaos, ineptitude and hubris of the Conservative Party during their time in office.
So you might be thinking, what took the Labour Party so long to get elected?
On the final episode of our Who Broke Britain series, how Labour went to war with itself — over policy, factions, personalities, Brexit, and anti-Semitism.
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The UK election is being held today and polls indicate the Conservative Party will lose in a landslide.
One of the key policies the government is running on is a version of Australia's offshore immigration detention policy, which was launched by prime minister John Howard in the lead-up to the 2001 election.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's two year fight over this policy has not only been a colossal failure, it will likely drag the Tories down with it.
So as the UK decides on their next Prime Minister, we're asking, who really broke Britain?
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Britain's National Health Service was in crisis when COVID arrived in the UK.
After years of increasing demand and flatlining funding, the NHS was deeply broken.
One Chancellor called the NHS "the closest thing the English people have to a religion", so how was it left to fall into disrepair, on the edge of collapse, right as a catastrophic pandemic hit?
This is part 3 of our series, Who Broke Britain.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron took a colossal gamble when he called for a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union.
Instead, he brought about Brexit and sent the country into three years of chaos.
Cameron was certain his side — Remain — would win. How did he get it so wrong?
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When the UK Conservative Party won the election in 2010, they took a butcher's knife to the budget.
David Cameron's money-man George Osborne — the young heir to a wallpaper fortune — had a big plan called "austerity," but it put the country on a journey to total chaos.
This is the first episode in a four-part series called Who Broke Britain.
It's about the past 14 years of Conservative Party leadership, all the way up to the general election that's happening next month.
London was once the largest city on Earth — capital of a global empire larger than any other in the history of the world.
Even as recently as 17 years ago, Britons were the richest people in any of the world's large economies.
Since then, they've gone backwards, more than any other large economy.
Britain feels broken. So, who broke it?
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We're still on a break from our regularly scheduled programming but don't worry, we're hard at work.
Next week we'll be launching a four-part series leading up to the UK election called Who Broke Britain?
The country that was once the centre of the world's greatest empire now seems a lot smaller, and in many ways — broken.
So — who broke it?
Until then, check out the latest ABC podcast Not Stupid, from our colleagues in ABC News.
It's hosted by Jeremy Fernandez and Julia Baird, and this week they're diving into Trump's guilty conviction and whether we should raise the minimum age for social media.
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The island of Taiwan, just off the coast of China, is shaping up as the most likely spark for the next global conflict.
China's president Xi Jinping wants to claim all the territory he thinks belongs to China, without triggering a nuclear war.
It's a century-old civil war, which has been frozen in place for decades.
It's an almost unimaginably dangerous situation, and one mistake could lead to catastrophe.
This is a repeat episode. It was first broadcast on the 6th July, 2021 as part of the China, If You're Listening series.
If you want to listen to the whole series you can find it here, or scroll back in your podcast feed.
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Earlier this week the President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash in bad weather.
Raisi was a phenomenally important figure in Middle Eastern politics — not just Iran's President, but the likely next Supreme Leader of Iran.
He got there through acts of extreme brutality, showing his willingness to do anything to defend the Iranian status quo.
How did Ebrahim Raisi become the heir-apparent to the Iranian Supreme Leadership, and what could happen now he's gone?
Listen to our other episodes about Iran:
Iran, Israel and the calculus of revenge
The Ayatollah who dreamed of an Iranian caliphate
How the Shah's cancer led to Iran's rift with the US
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