Fasten Your Bot-belts (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)

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…