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#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task
The three biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind — have now all released policies designed to make their AI models less likely to go …
1 year, 7 months ago
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
"In the 1980s, it was still apparently common to perform surgery on newborn babies without anaesthetic on both sides of the Atlantic. This led to app…
1 year, 7 months ago
#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
"Computational systems have literally millions of physical and conceptual components, and around 98% of them are embedded into your infrastructure wi…
1 year, 8 months ago
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
"If you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things like valuing freedom, being democratic, being pro-for…
1 year, 8 months ago
#193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition
"You don’t necessarily need world-leading compute to create highly risky AI systems. The biggest biological design tools right now, like AlphaFold’s,…
1 year, 8 months ago
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
"Ring one: total annihilation; no cellular life remains. Ring two, another three-mile diameter out: everything is ablaze. Ring three, another three o…
1 year, 8 months ago
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
This is the second part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The first episode is on the economy and national security after AGI. You can lis…
1 year, 8 months ago
#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
This is the first part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The second episode is on government and society after AGI. You can listen to them…
1 year, 9 months ago
#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
"One of the most amazing things about planet Earth is that there are complex bags of mostly water — you and me – and we can look up at the stars, and…
1 year, 9 months ago
#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions
"You can’t charge what something is worth during a pandemic. So we estimated that the value of one course of COVID vaccine in January 2021 was over $…
1 year, 10 months ago