I asked a disaster survival psychologist if AI usage should be the same level of 'emergency' as Pompeii — but instead she's worried about a technology catastrophe that I didn't even consider

Tom Hiddleston talks to Dr. Sarita Robinson in a museum.

My favorite interviews over the course of my career have involve people I'd never normally get the chance to speak to in everyday life.

So far this year that's involved two former FBI agents, but Dr. Sarita Robinson — who you can see in Pompeii: Out of Time, out now on Disney+ and Hulu — might just take the cake. Known as "Dr. Survival," her work specialises in figuring out why some people are more likely to survive disasters than others.