Is AI really a threat to humanity?

This week on the gray area,

Tyler Austin Harper gives us his take on today's extinction panic.

I think we need to resist panic and I think we need to resist pessimism and we need to be realistic

and not pain glossian but there are ways in which we can meet the challenges and we've met

similar seemingly unthinkable ones in the past.

That's this week on the gray area available wherever you get your podcasts. It's the Weeds. I'm John Glyn Hill and today we're bringing you a recent

episode from our sister podcast. It's a really interesting conversation about

wealth inequality and an exploration of Limitarianism, an economic theory that

there should be a limit on extreme wealth. But before we get into that I wanted to tell you a little bit about our next new episode.

It'll be in your feed on Wednesday, March 6th, the day after Super Tuesday and the day before

the State of the Union.

We'll use it as an opportunity to explore something

that's been on the mind of the Weeds team lately.

AI and the election.

If you're like us, you've heard that artificial intelligence could bring about democracy's doom or that it doesn't matter as much as we think it does.

We'll find out just how worried we should be and how best to arm ourselves against being fooled.

This was a question we had, but we want to know what questions you have about anything.

The election, the economy, how something works, or how to solve a problem you see out in the world.

You ask it and we'll find answers and explore ideas.

Email your questions to weeds at Vox.com.

All right, here's my colleague Sean Illing.

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