Below are the references to the latest episode of our podcast on YouTube:
John Lennox, interviewed by Steven Bartlett, *The Diary of a CEO*, June 4, 2026. Source of the “redness of red” formulation and the warning about anthropomorphizing AI systems.
John Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs,” *Behavioral and Brain Sciences*, vol. 3, no. 3 (1980), pp. 417–457. The original Chinese Room argument.
Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Harvard University Press, 1988. Source of Moravec’s paradox — that tasks humans find hard are easy for machines and vice versa.
Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Penguin Press, 2025. Cited here for the argument that AGI lacks a scientific definition and that benchmarks reflect what technologists count as intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, 2005) and *The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI* (Viking, 2024). Source of the 2029 AGI and 2045 Singularity predictions.
OpenAI’s AGI definition — “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic), “We Must Pace the Frontier,” published September 12, 2026. Argues for slowing the rate of capability improvement, international coordination, and third-party evaluators embedded in labs — and that the most effective pacing mechanism would be regulation covering all U.S. frontier developers.
Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Elon Musk (xAI) — public responses expressing agreement.President Trump — remarks to reporters in Ireland, September 13, 2026, and a Truth Social post of September 14, 2026 stating that the only guardrail AI needs is a strong and smart president.
David Sacks, response on X. Argued the labs should slow themselves if they wish, questioned what they claim to see, and raised product-liability exposure as a possible motive.
Speaker Mike Johnson — comments calling for meetings rather than legislation.