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Is AI really going to kill us all? From Anthropic’s latest warnings to rogue AI agents, recursive self-improvement and calls to halt advanced AI development, doomerism is having a moment. But how much is legitimate risk—and how much is panic? We examine the evidence, the assumptions behind extinction scenarios, and why taking AI safety seriously doesn’t require believing the apocalypse is coming.

As AI becomes the primary gateway to discovering brands online, traditional SEO is giving way to a new discipline: AI Visibility. In this episode, Leah Nurik, CEO and Co-Founder of Brandi AI, joins Signal & Noise to explore Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), how AI decides which brands to recommend, and what the shift from search engines to answer engines means for marketers, publishers, and the future of digital marketing.

Four years into the AI era, intelligence has arrived—but the revolution we were promised hasn't. AI can pass the Turing Test, summon something resembling a “country of geniuses,” and transform how millions work, yet society remains remarkably familiar. Maybe AI isn't overhyped. Maybe we're simply underestimating how long it takes humanity to rebuild the world around a revolutionary technology.

Advertising is coming to AI, but it may not reshape the industry in the way many expect. In this article, Rio Longacre examines the fierce debate between skeptics, optimists, and purists, arguing that ads will become a significant revenue stream for AI platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. The key insight: unlike Google Search, these companies already generate extraordinary subscription and enterprise revenue, making advertising highly valuable—but ultimately incremen