Portland’s Leading Human Extinctionist

A lot of the news headlines on the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have prophesized a doomsday scenario where computers take over and humanity goes extinct. But if you ask Portlander Les Knight, he thinks that might not be such a bad idea – at least the extinction part. He’s the leader of what he calls the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, a decades-long effort to convince humans to stop breeding.

This conversation originally aired on February 8th, 2023.

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