#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
"I do think that there is a really significant sentiment among parts of the opposition that it’s not really just that this bill itself is that bad or extreme — when you really drill into it, it feels ...
29 Elo 20241h 12min
#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours
"This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poorly covered in our science curriculum; they are especially poorly understood, because people don’t s...
26 Elo 20243h 48min
#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 rogue or cause catastrophic damage as they approach...
22 Elo 20242h 29min
#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 appalling cases, and to public outcry, and to campaign...
15 Elo 20242h 1min
#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 without you ever having heard of them. And an inordin...
1 Elo 20242h 8min
#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-foreigner, being open-minded, being interested in trad...
26 Heinä 20243h 4min
#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, are orders of magnitude smaller in terms of comput...
18 Heinä 20242h 23min
#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 or five miles out on every side: third-degree burns ...
12 Heinä 20241h 54min
