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Odd Lots: Maybe AI Won’t Kill Us All — Just Some of Us
According to Bloomberg's description, this short clip from the Odd Lots podcast, recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, has Rachel Karten of the Link in Bio newsletter and Taylor Lorenz of User Mag discussing whether AI could kill all humans or only some. The description sets it against Big Tech's extinction warnings and skeptics.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
The question it raises
Weighs extinction warnings against skeptics, among them former FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, who per the description pointed to the Black Death; the clip is too short to settle much.
The record
- Questions
- Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed?
- People
- Rachel Karten (Speaks, Author, Link in Bio newsletter) · Taylor Lorenz (Speaks, Founder, User Mag) · Alvaro Bedoya (Mentioned, Former US Federal Trade Commissioner)
- Also covered by
- Bloomberg Television
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 12, 2026, via
yt-bloomberg-tech(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- Bloomberg Tech, “Odd Lots: Maybe AI Won’t Kill Us All — Just Some of Us”, October 6, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/bloomberg-tech-2026-10-06-odd-lots-ai-extinction-debate
Our notesLight lane: written from the triage title, channel and description only; the video was not watched, fetched or transcribed. The description does not say whether Bedoya appears in the clip or is cited as background, nor who hosts. A copy on the Bloomberg Television channel (published 2026-10-08) carries the same description. Both videos are 74 seconds long.