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1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“I think actually in a Terminator type of setup, I think humans win. I think we’re too clever.”
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- 1 Feb 2026
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…100%. I mean, the movie Terminator, they made in- -the ’80s, essentially, and I do think the only thing I can see going wrong is, of course, if things are explicitly programmed to do things that are harmful. I think actually in a Terminator type of setup, I think humans win. I think we’re too clever. It’s hard to explain how we figure it out, but we do. And we’ll probably be using local LLMs, open source LLMs, to help fight the machines. I apologize for the ridiculousness. Like I said, Nathan, I’ve already been a big fan of yours for a long time. And I’ve been a big fan of yours, Sebastian, for a long time, so it’s an honor to finally meet you. Thank you for everything you put out into the world. Thank you for the excellent books you’re writing. Thank you for teaching us. And thank you for talking today. This was fun. Thank you for inviting us here and having this human connection, which is actually-…
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