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Listen now | 0:00 Overtime teaser 0:43 David’s AI safety work, past and present 2:42 Has there been a vibe shift in AI? 8:03 Why two AI godfathers went doomer 12:14 The OpenAI breakout as the warning shot heard round the world 20:52 Breaking down the OpenAI breakout 29:07 AI agents are cooperating. Why? 37:46 Is an AI pause near? 42:36 The hard problem of AI alignment 47:30 Heading to Overtime…
Listen now | 0:00 Bob channels Dick Cheney 4:01 Is AI killing writing? And thinking? 16:19 How Bob and Paul actually use AI 23:39 The cognitive vs economic value of writing 30:04 AIs aping “Memento” and other frontier freakiness 37:36 Bob: Reckless AI is just good business 41:08 Heading to Overtime obert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom…
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:48 How is MAGA feeling about Trump 2.0? 3:51 Bob’s good ol’ days at The New Republic 6:43 The biggest threat to the Trump coalition 18:51 Why the MoU unraveled 32:00 Is Iran's regime really divided? 37:01 Part two: This pod’s auspicious return from tech hell 38:14 Trump’s covert catering-truck op 46:10 Have Iran’s demands really gotten more extreme? 53:46 Saudi Arabia vs…
Listen now | 0:00 Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides 1:07 Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war? 5:53 Is Ukraine really “turning the tide”? 15:04 America’s (and Ukraine’s) missile defense issue 18:44 Putin’s ceasefire conditions 25:35 What—and who—are America’s missiles for, really? 29:47 How not to open the Hormuz Strait 41:09 How will the Iran war truly end? 51:05 Heading to Overtime…
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:46 Sam’s ideological leanings 4:02 Sam’s AI Manhattan Project–revisited 8:02 What does the “Pacing” letter say about the state of AI? 19:11 Mythos, Astra, and AI’s accelerating acceleration 28:08 The OpenAI “rogue” model escape 36:48 Recursive self-improvement: Red line or red herring? 42:42 How frontier AI is getting (and will get) freakier 52:28 How is open-source AI…
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:03 The “Pacing the Frontier” letter signed by AI elites 10:49 Why so many China-hawk AI-safety-hawks? 14:50 Was the “Pacing” letter too small an ask? 27:47 The striking AI vibe shift 37:02 Are AI builders “just following orders”? 46:20 Recursive self-improvement: The wrong red line? 51:57 Heading to Overtime Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is…
Listen now | 0:00 Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine? 13:45 Ukraine’s war on Russia’s Amazon 19:15 Why Zelensky fired his defense minister and commander-in-chief 22:37 Bob: Ukraine may lose like people go bankrupt—gradually, then suddenly 24:53 Nikita: Why both sides are ready to keep fighting31:02 Kazakh President to Putin: Nobody understands this war35:19 Bob: Everybody…
A new theory about why foreign policy elites aren't worried enough. Plus: Graph of the week.
Listen now | The great Robert Wright returns to the podcast to talk about his new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning. We debate the magnitude of AI’s potential impact, the natural selection analogy Bob presses in the book, and a whole lot more. Plus, a new AI-powered collar can translate your pet’s sounds and behavior into language with 95% accuracy! Still…
Listen now | 0:00 Connor’s place in the AI world 3:15 Mythos: “digital nuke”? 14:11 The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans 20:51 Yudkowsky, Marx, and other AI harbingers 35:33 Effective altruism’s effects on big tech 46:21 The “cult” in Silicon Valley culture 59:58 Is the AI race a market failure? 1:05:50 What’s really driving the AI titans? 1:19:03 Connor: ASI is a worse bet than…
