{"id":31381,"date":"2025-05-27T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=31381"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:33:25","slug":"ep-807-james-barrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2025\/05\/27\/ep-807-james-barrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. #807: James Barrat &#8211; Advancements in Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With reports of robots going rouge, the so-called &#8220;godfather of AI&#8221; warning about the technology&#8217;s potential to wipe out humanity, and Congress considering a bill that could block regulatory oversight, it&#8217;s no wonder that concerns about artificial intelligence are growing. Jeremy welcomes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbarrat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Barrat<\/a> to discuss how AI&#8217;s ability to continually improve itself could one day lead it to surpass and outsmart humans.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbarrat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jamesbarrat.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Book<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Intelligence-Explosion-Beats-Humans-Everything\/dp\/1250355028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31401 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-barrat-the-intelligence-explosion-194x300.jpg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-barrat-the-intelligence-explosion.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-barrat-the-intelligence-explosion.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-barrat-the-intelligence-explosion.jpg?resize=768%2C1186&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-barrat-the-intelligence-explosion.jpg?resize=600%2C927&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-barrat-the-intelligence-explosion.jpg?w=971&amp;ssl=1 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Social Media<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jrbarrat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@jrbarrat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>News Links<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/strange-dazzling-white-streak-photobombs-rare-auroras-over-the-u-s-2000604051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strange, Dazzling White Streak Photobombs Rare Auroras Over the U.S.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/new-minor-planet-spotted-past-pluto-one-of-the-largest-distant-objects-in-the-solar-system-2000605924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Minor Planet Spotted Past Pluto, One of the Largest Distant Objects in the Solar System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With reports of robots going rouge, the so-called &#8220;godfather of AI&#8221; warning about the technology&#8217;s potential to wipe out humanity, and Congress considering a bill that could block regulatory oversight, it&#8217;s no wonder that concerns about artificial intelligence are growing. Jeremy welcomes James Barrat to discuss how AI&#8217;s ability to continually improve itself could one day lead it to surpass and outsmart humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59,124,1974,647],"class_list":["post-31381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-james-barrat","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/807-james-barrat.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31381"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33021,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31381\/revisions\/33021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}