Ed Sheeran responds to Macklemore axing + No, AI isn't going to destroy us all

Wednesday Headlines:

Pauline Hanson apologises for comments about Indigenous Australians, PM's mum
Gov accused of wanting to protect AI companies over Australians
Ed Sheeran responds to Macklemore backlash
One of Sydney’s biggest councils bans smart glasses at local swimming pools
Karl Stefanovic and podcast partner in Supreme Court

Deep Dive: There have been renewed and urgent warnings this week from not only former staff, but also the big tech bosses themselves about the existential threat AI poses to humanity.

We've been warned by the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and Grok that an urgent slowdown is needed in the advancement of this tech, with fears it could result in the extinction of the human race, possibly as soon as 2030.

While most have taken them at their word, some experts are a little more skeptical, and others think it's downright fantasy.

In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by Professor Emily M. Bender, the Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington to offer an alternative view to the narrative that AI is going to kill us all.

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