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AI PSA
April 30, 2026
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I’m afraid I don’t have the bandwidth right now to go down this rabbit hole on my own but I’m intensely interested in the topic and I look forward to learning about it on this new podcast: Lots of things keep Chris Hayes up at night. The MS NOW prime time host channeled some of those insomnia-triggering subjects into a hit podcast, “Why Is This Happening?,” which won a Webby Award for best interview/talk show podcast in 2025.
Now he’s launching a new podcast, “The AI End Game,” to answer another unsettling question: is AI “unstoppable”? AI is “moving very fast, and suddenly, it is just everywhere: workplace, schools, media,” Hayes says in a trailer for the podcast released Thursday. He says while AI presents new possibilities, it also “raises a lot of pretty terrifying questions.” And those are the questions he hopes to answer.Apple PodcastsIntroducing WITHpod: The AI End Game Hayes say he’ll sit down each week with people who’ve studied AI and its effects, as well as refreshing listeners on exactly what AI is–and isn’t. “What happens if it changes not just how we work,” Hayes asks, “but how we think–or, more essentially, who we are?” Hayes has lined up an all-star group of guests, including The Atlantic journalist Derek Thompson; professor at Wharton and New York Times bestselling author Ethan Mollick; professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and member of the Berkeley AI Research Group Alison Gopnik; former co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google and co-founder of
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