https://peertube.dair-institute.org/videos/watch/992dadac-214f-4c48-8df0-fe27589a69ca Senator Bernie Sanders recently hosted a panel on "The Existential Threat of AI," featuring Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark and other x-riskers. Dr. Nathalie Maréchal joins Emily and Alex to unpack this latest stop on Bernie's descent into doomerism. We return to the MST3k model with a rare video artifact! Nathalie Maréchal is a writer, researcher and advocate fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. Her latest article, "Tech Policy Is on the Front Line of Fascism vs. Democracy. Pick a Side," is available in Tech Policy Press. She is currently the managing policy director at Northeastern University’s Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy. References: "LIVE: The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation", Fresh AI Hell: "The AI Pledge for Humanity" petition, Richard Dawkins force-femmes a chatbot, Anthropic claims LLMs have "emotion concepts", Palantir wants us all to stop being mean to data centers, "Optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again", Luxury surveillance cat, Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see. Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here. Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown. Follow Emily: Bluesky/Mastodon Follow Alex: Bluesky/Mastodon Music by Toby Menon. Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:26:53 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dair-institute.org https://peertube.dair-institute.org/lazy-static/avatars/1089158e-16ee-40ac-8546-3755106099c6.jpg https://peertube.dair-institute.org/videos/watch/992dadac-214f-4c48-8df0-fe27589a69ca All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dair-institute.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.