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Diary of a CEOCivilisational risk and strategySpotlightReleased: 18 Dec 2025

Yoshua Bengio - 2 Years Before Everything Changes

Why this matters

Strong anchor episode for comparing mainstream AGI timeline narratives against technical assumptions.

Summary

Alignment urgency and agentic-system safety framed by a foundational ML researcher.

Perspective map

Risk-forwardTechnicalMedium confidence

Risk-forwardCaution & harms

MixedBalanced framing

OpportunityUpside & deployment

For band and lens definitions, scoring, and counterbalance: see the Perspective Map Framework in Library methodology.

Risk-forward leaning, primarily in the Technical lens. Evidence mode: interview. Confidence: medium.

- Emphasizes alignment
- Emphasizes safety
- Emphasizes ai safety

Editor note

Queued from the Diary landscape map so playback remains on-site.

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Counterbalance on this topic

Ranked with the mirror rule in the methodology: picks sit closer to the opposite side of your score on the same axis (lens alignment preferred). Each card plots you and the pick together.

AXRP

3 Jan 2026

David Rein on METR Time Horizons

This conversation examines core safety through David Rein on METR Time Horizons, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.

Spectrum vs this page

This page -28This pick -10.64Δ +17.36

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Offset on the spectrum so you can compare how risks and upsides are weighted. Mixed · Technical lens.

Spectrum trail (transcript)

Med 0 · avg -0 · 108 segs

AXRP

7 Aug 2025

Tom Davidson on AI-enabled Coups

This conversation examines core safety through Tom Davidson on AI-enabled Coups, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.

Spectrum vs this page

This page -28This pick -10.64Δ +17.36

This pageThis pick

Offset on the spectrum so you can compare how risks and upsides are weighted. Mixed · Technical lens.

Spectrum trail (transcript)

Med 0 · avg -5 · 133 segs

AXRP

6 Jul 2025

Samuel Albanie on DeepMind's AGI Safety Approach

This conversation examines core safety through Samuel Albanie on DeepMind's AGI Safety Approach, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.

Spectrum vs this page

This page -28This pick -10.64Δ +17.36

This pageThis pick

Offset on the spectrum so you can compare how risks and upsides are weighted. Mixed · Technical lens.

Spectrum trail (transcript)

Med 0 · avg -4 · 72 segs

You Are Not Prepared For 2027

Preparedness and timeline risk framed as an immediate operating concern for mainstream audiences.

Diary of a CEO

11 Feb 2026

AI Will Replace Most Knowledge Workers

Labor disruption claims and managerial framing presented for non-specialist listeners.

Diary of a CEO

27 Nov 2025

Tristan Harris - What the World Looks Like in 2 Years

A long-form governance interview in which Tristan Harris argues that frontier-AI incentives are structurally misaligned: labs race capability forward while institutions and labor protections lag behind. The discussion spans US-China strategy framing, labor-transition pressure (including UBI), model-control concerns, and product-level harms such as dependency and delusion loops.

Diary of a CEO

23 Feb 2026

An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are (Quietly) Deciding Humanity’s Future!

Concentration-of-power narrative around frontier model control and strategic influence.