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🤖⚠️ Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - who benefits from the hype?

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UBC Learning Exchange · Vancouver

Video / podcast-style discussion - watch beforehand. Not a gaming event. **Short summary** AI apocalypse talk is usually too easy. One side says the machine-god is coming. The other side says everyon…

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UBC Learning Exchange612 Main St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3, Canada, Vancouver, BC
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UBC Learning Exchange612 Main St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3, Canada, Vancouver, BCVancouver

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Video / podcast-style discussion - watch beforehand. Not a gaming event.

**Short summary**

AI apocalypse talk is usually too easy.

One side says the machine-god is coming.

The other side says everyone should calm down and learn spreadsheets.

Neither version is enough.

This discussion is built around Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse, a video about AI hype, oversimplification, machine learning, edge cases, incentives, institutions, government involvement, and the strange almost-religious language that keeps growing around AI.

That is the part I want to talk about.

Not “AI will save us.”

Not “AI will kill us all.”

Not everyone repeating the loudest version of the internet argument.

A real conversation about what AI can actually do, what institutions want it to do, where the apocalypse story helps, where it misleads, and who gains power when everyone is either dazzled or afraid.

The video gets into supervised machine learning, edge cases, engagement incentives, expansion, societal restr

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Free
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Vancouver Curiosity Club!
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