Issue #52 (Pt III) is the finale of our AI trilogy — and tonight we stop talking around the subject and do something rarer: we render a verdict.
Welcome to The Shadow Showdown: two heavyweight champions, two opposing worldviews, and one question that matters more than “Is AI good or bad?”
What survives when civilization integrates a voice that sounds smarter than its own?
In the red corner: Dr. Roman Yampolskiy — warning that advanced AI may be uncontrollable, misaligned, and ultimately lethal to human agency (and maybe humanity itself).
In the blue corner: Dr. Demis Hassabis — arguing that AI is already proving its worth, and may be the tool that ends disease, accelerates discovery, and ushers in radical abundance.
Don and Data don’t run a traditional debate. We run an audit.
Both sides start with 5 stars. Then we deduct for:
Fact. Logic. Weight.
No fanboying. No doom addiction. No utopia worship. Just a reckoning you can navigate by.
If you’ve been following Parts I and II, this is the crescendo. If you’re new, you picked a wild night to show up — but you’ll leave with something real.
The Shadow Network Podcast — optimized truth for surviving contact with language, no matter its source.
(Next week: Issue #53, Pt I — “The Missing Drones & UAPs.”)
