
Guest
Katja Grace
Co-founder & lead researcher, AI Impacts
Co-founded AI Impacts and leads research on AI forecasting and its likely impacts on society.
Real Alpha has cut 2 moments of Katja Grace (Co-founder & lead researcher, AI Impacts) talking, from an interview on 80,000 Hours Podcast published Sep 29, 2026.
What Katja Grace said
AI Overlords vs Power-hungry Humans: Which Should Scare You More?
2 moments · 8 min
- 1:08:53
Racing China can increase the risks on both sides
“i guess it just seems like trying to race them mostly increases the chance of all of this stuff happening because it shortens timelines”
at 1:13:35 - 14:25
Slower timelines could increase human power-grab risks
“So I do, I think that even in a slower scenario, you are increasing the background risk of extreme human power concentration as it plays out.”
at 17:20
- 1:08:53