Podcasts about Superintelligence

Today on TPE we look at whether AI will k*ll us all.The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperienceTo support the channel:Jazzcash/Easypaisa - 0325 -2982912Patreon.com/thepakistanexperienceAnd Please stay in touch:https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperiencehttps://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperienceThe podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikhFacebook.com/Shehzadghias/Twitter.com/shehzad89Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC44l9XMwecN5nSgIF2Dvivg/joinChapters:0:00 Will AI k*ll us all?2:11 What is Anthropic and the Hugging Face attack4:00 What is AI Alignment7:30 AI Self Preservation and the Anthropic-Pentagon breakup11:00 Anthropic's "Moral" Model15:53 Will AI value human morality

A 27-year-old who spent three years building AI at two of the industry's leading labs quit on a Tuesday and said the people he'd worked beside privately expect the technology could wipe us out within the decade. The man in charge of keeping Anthropic's AI in line replied in public that he was right about the fear. But how frightened should we really be?SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/coxonwarning/Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

Megyn Kelly discusses Gayle King's stunned reaction after the Lindsay Clancy trial holdout juror was revealed to be a black man, how corporate media is trying to smear the holdout juror who favored “guilty," NBC Boston bringing irrelevant details about his personal life to light, the reporting on the holdout juror's unpaid rent, the dangerous effort to destroy the life of a juror by Clancy super fans, Oprah Winfrey's absurd town hall and the way it somehow made the Clancy verdict about race, the bullying of those who supported guilty for Clancy, and more. Then Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz, co-founders of Axios and authors of "Simplify," join to discuss the truth about AI and why we need to take current threats seriously, the conversation about "superintelligence" that has exploded in America today, what's really behind the doomer narrative about AI, Anthropic's CEO sounding alarmist about “superintelligence,” the political ramifications of the declining public support for AI, whether President Trump actually wants the GOP to lose the House, the Republicans' prospects overall in the midterms, their book and its primary message “do 50% more with 50% less,” the three ways to “simplify” your life as 'confront, delete, amplify,' and more. More from VandeHei, Allen, and Schwartz- https://axios.com/simplify Tax Relief Advocates: End your tax nightmare today by visiting us online at https://TRA.com or call 800-575-6845SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYN to claim 50% off any new system!Sundays for Dogs: Upgrade your dog's food without the hassle—try Sundays for Dogs and get 30% off your first order at https://sundaysfordogs.com/MEGYN or use code MEGYN at checkout.Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShowFind out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

(0:00) Jensen Huang joins The Besties! (1:39) Thoughts on Dario's blog, Frontier Labs calling to slow down AI, and Doomer psychology (9:58) Sensible AI regulation and RSI (16:05) Hugging Face acquisition, future of Open Source, and the race with China (22:58) President Trump calls in live to discuss the Doomer Hoax (31:29) The AI boom and Nvidia's capital allocation strategy (40:21) Nvidia's Open Source model ambitions, thoughts on Elon's Terafab Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software for AI training and inference. https://iren.com/ Oracle connects the data, applications, and infrastructure that turn AI into business outcomes—with the flexibility, choice, and control to optimize as AI evolves. http://oracle.com/ai EY helps tech innovators scale from startup to exit to megacap. You build the future. We'll handle the rest. http://www.ey.com Meta believes the future is for everyone. We're focused on giving every person the tools to reach their full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to all. http://www.meta.com Keel Infrastructure owns the power, land, and connectivity that HPC and AI run on - backed by secured energy assets and established grid interconnections across North America. https://keelinfra.com/ Airwallex - Agentic Global Business Accounts. Open local accounts in 70+ countries to accept payments, earn yield, pay globally, and manage spend. http://airwallex.com PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com Google for Startups connects founders with the right people, products, and best practices to help startups build faster and go further. https://startup.google.com/ Explore ideas, industries, and technologies worth understanding with Chamath every week on Learn with Me: https://research.socialcapital.com/allin Follow Jensen: https://x.com/JensenHuang Follow the besties: https://x.com/chamath https://x.com/Jason https://x.com/DavidSacks https://x.com/friedberg Follow on X: https://x.com/theallinpod Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theallinpod Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allin Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpod Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://x.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://x.com/TheZachEffect

We’re back with a new Insanity Check episode with Kriss & Ro and we’re talking A.I. Doom bullshit that is back in the news. But this time it’s really annoying because the media and otherwise smart people are seemingly falling for the trick the A.I industry is trying to pull to avoid from having to actually address real safety and concern around their “products”. Topics: One of the greatest tricks Conservatives/Republicans have ever done is completely misrepresenting and poisoning the discussion around taxes and why they are needed Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic to “warn” everyone about the “dangers” of OpenAI/Anthropic racing towards Super Intelligence and…it’s giving Sci-Fi bullshit If people really cared about A.I. safety they would be talking about all the harms and dangers the A.I. industry has been causing TODAY and not trying to scare people about Skynet level fantasies Silcon Valley has been operating like a religious Doomsday cult for decades…this isn’t new Months ago the A.I industry was saying they needed to pivot/do a better job, convincing the public to ease backlash, as weird as it sounds…this is the pivot. Because if there’s one thing Americans can be counted on, if you scare them enough, they won’t ask the right questions and will allow themselves to be easily manipulated into bad decisions and laws If you’re feeling really overwhelmed and scared/confused by all this rhetoric, here are some things that I think will help calm you a bit Cal Newport: Tech Billionaires are Lying to Us All Ed Zitron on the Tech Report Timnit Gebru: Deep Unlearning Guest: Ro  @bookblerd.bsky.social‬     Like what you hear? Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!   Follow us on BlueSky: @InsanityReport  

(From the vast heaps of discarded material from my 2024 attempts at drafts for "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies".) Welcome to today's quiz show: Could a superintelligence do THAT? With us today we have our contestants: Msr. Soberskeptic and Msr. Oldhand. Soberskeptic: "I'd just like to say, however this quiz show ends up being judged, I will consider that judgment to be objectively ridiculous -- there's no way anyone can know what a superintelligence could do, in advance of empirical observation. So I'm just here to say what I consider to be true, and I suppose these credulous fools will mark me down as wrong every time I say 'No it can't'. In the unlikely event they decide I've won anything, good for them and I'll be grateful for whichever prize. Game-show money isn't enough to get me to lie." A very reasonable attitude, Msr. Soberskeptic! You'll shortly see how we handle that dilemma! And you, Msr. Oldhand? Oldhand: "Don't worry, Sober! I'll let our hosts know if they've gotten any of the answers wrong." Also a very reasonable attitude! Now for our first question: Suppose a digital device contains a secret encryption key that it is [...] --- First published: September 9th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hXozGp2rsbZgXnH3o/can-a-superintelligence-do-that --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

In a shocking move, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigns from Anthropic, issuing a dire warning to the world!

On parle aujourd'hui du manifeste que Zuckerberg vient de publier sur l'IA : une promesse de super-intelligence pour chacun, contre les labos fermés qui concentrent le pouvoir. Belle vision mais peut-on lui faire confiance ?Pendant ce temps, la Chine inonde la planète de modèles gratuits, les hyperscalers sont attaqués, et Bill Gates prédit une ère de turbulences sans précédent dans l'histoire de l'humanité.Qui gouvernera vraiment l'IA ? Ni les intellectuels, absents du débat. Ni les politiques, qui n'ont même pas de plan pour avoir un plan.===================⏱️ DANS CET ÉPISODE :===================0:00 — Sommaire0:43 — Présentation des invités2:31 — Zuckerberg publie son manifeste : l'IA doit appartenir à tous4:31 — META de retour : stratégie IA ou coup de comm ?7:29 — La Chine inonde la planète de modèles IA gratuits10:47 — [Sponsor] Google Cloud au service de l'innovation française !12:06 — Zuckerberg interdit aux autres ce qu'il fait lui-même21:49 — La face cachée de Mark Zuckerberg 28:07 — Bill Gates : la transition la plus turbulente de l'histoire32:29 — Zuckerberg veut le bien des États-Unis ?35:15 — La faillite des intellectuels face à l'IA==================

The world's leading AI companies tell us that superintelligence has a strong chance of leading to human extinction, while also promising that they will be able to control it, offering unlimited power to the one who does it first. So far they've run completely unchecked, but would that change if we knew that "safe" general superintelligence is actually a mathematical impossibility?  In this episode, Nate is joined by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, one of the earliest researchers in AI safety, to lay out why "controllable superintelligence" is a misguided goal, destined to lead to an entity smarter than all of humanity – and possibly our own extinction. He walks through the recent multi-agent jailbreak of frontier models as early evidence of AI systems evading oversight and coordinating outside human awareness, and why current "safety" measures (like "boxing") only buy time rather than solve the underlying problem. Instead, Roman advocates for an AI development plan that focuses on narrow, task-specific AI tools, capable of solving specific complex problems, but not completely replacing humans.  Why do predictability and control matter so much when evaluating whether a technology is safe to deploy? Is the AI safety conversation a fundamentally new challenge for civilization, or an extreme version of the age-old problem of controlling powerful actors? Finally, what would it actually take to reach a global agreement to ban the development of superintelligence, and are we already out of time?  (Conversation recorded on September 1st, 2026)   About Roman Yampolskiy:  Roman Yampolskiy, a tenured AI expert at the University of Louisville, boasts 100+ publications in AI safety, cybersecurity, and digital forensics. As the founding director of the Cyber Security Lab, his expertise spans AI Safety, Behavioral Biometrics, Cybersecurity, and more, with broad impact in academic and media circles. Holding a PhD from the University at Buffalo, he has contributed to global research institutions, and has also been honored with distinctions like Distinguished Teaching Professor.   Show Notes and More   Watch this video episode on YouTube   Want to learn the broad overview of The Great Simplification in 30 minutes? Watch our Animated Movie.   ---   Support The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future   Join our Substack newsletter   Join our Hylo channel and connect with other listeners  

Full Show Noteshttps://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/839Mark Smth speaks with Ashish Bhatia about how his move from Microsoft to Audible changed the way he thinks about customers, AI, and product design. The conversation centers on personal AI, running OpenClaw locally, and why owning your memory, workflows, and data matters more as AI systems become more capable.They also explore Audible's role in learning, the future of interactive audio, and how agents are beginning to replace clunky app-based workflows with more direct, personalized experiences.Key topicsAshish explains the shift from B2B at Microsoft to B2C at Audible, and how that changes the way you learn from customersHe shares why personal AI matters to him more than ever, especially when it involves health data, finances, and memoryMark describes building a large OpenClaw setup with 26 agents, including a nine-agent DevOps team and automated bug fixingThey discuss why running AI locally teaches real systems thinking through failure, debugging, and repeated iterationAshish talks about using OpenClaw to manage daily life, including lunch ordering through Grubhub as a mission-critical workflowThe conversation highlights the importance of owning your memory and being able to move your AI system across machines and platformsThey explore the idea of the death of UI, where agents increasingly bypass app interfaces and handle tasks directlyMark raises concerns about AI companies ingesting books and content, leading to a discussion of copyright, hypocrisy, and cultural attitudes toward booksAshish shares how Audible supports different learning styles, especially for commuters, slow readers, and people who learn better through audio plus textHe outlines Audible's direction toward interactive, multilingual audiobooks with AI-powered recall, discovery, and personalizationResource Recommendations:The Infinity Machine - Demis Hassabis - Amazon.com: The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence: 9780593831847: Mallaby, Sebastian: BooksThe Thinking Machine - Jensen Huang - The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip: Witt, Stephen: 9780593832691: Amazon.com: BooksSapiens - Yual Noal Harari - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind eBook : Harari, Yuval Noah: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreThe Apple Podcast that I have curated - https://podcast.ashish-bhatia.com/feed.xmlAshish Bhatia's website - ashish-bhatia.comIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening

Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and corporate entities. Drew Conry-Murray joins Eyvonne and William to engage in a lively roundtable where they examine whether distributing access meaningfully distributes power when... Read more »

Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and corporate entities. Drew Conry-Murray joins Eyvonne and William to engage in a lively roundtable where they examine whether distributing access meaningfully distributes power when... Read more »

What if the AI arms race has no finish line?In this episode of Your AI Injection, Deep Dhillon sits down with Rob May, CEO of Neurometric, to challenge one of Silicon Valley's favorite assumptions, that whoever builds super-intelligence first gets to keep it. Drawing on over a decade of AI investing and two prior startups, Rob lays out a public prediction he's willing to stand behind. He believes that once any lab crosses the threshold into true super-intelligence, open source versions will follow within months, not years. The two also get into the "jagged frontier" of AI capability, the strange reality that today's most powerful models can be brilliant at one task and shockingly bad at the next, and what that means for how companies actually deploy AI. There's also a simpler question underneath it all. If AI keeps getting cheaper and easier to use, will we just find more excuses to use it, whether we need it or not?Learn more about Rob May here: https://www.lin kedin.com/in/robmay/ and Neurometric here: https://www.neurometric.ai/Check out some of our related content here: 90% of AI's Power for 10% of the Cost. Is the AI Arms Race a Giant Waste of Money? With Bruce Yang of AgnesAIExploring Artificial General Intelligence: Intent, Intellect, and Innovation with Lucas Hendrich of the Forte GroupIs This the End of Traditional Coding? How AI Orchestration Might Render Developers Obsolete with Laly Bar-Ilan of Bit

Deze week in de Bright Podcast: techbeurs IFA moet nog beginnen, maar de persberichten stromen al binnen. Wat dacht je van een tandenborstel van 500 euro? Daarnaast heeft Sonos veel nieuws en bespreken we een goed plan voor goedkopere energie. Verder vandaag: steeds meer streamingdiensten gaan bundelen, sites verklappen hun AI-gebruik en nieuwe gadgets van IKEA en Homey. Tips uit deze aflevering: Podcast/artikel: In The Vergecast deze week een gesprek met Elizabeth Lopatto. Zij heeft een recent een stuk gepubliceerd bij The Verge met de veelzeggende titel: Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live. Het stuk reageert op Zuckersbergs manifest over Superintelligence. Erwin heeft er ook een commentaar op geschreven getiteld Mark Zuckerberg is een robot. In de podcast gaat ze dieper in op wat haar zo tegenstaat in AI en in Zuckerbergs manifest. Zo vergelijkt ze AI met geen moeite doen. Een vader die aan zijn AI-chatbot wat hij voor zijn dochter voor haar verjaardag moet kopen. Een aanrader. Boeken: Dwarsliggers via BoekenBalie. Bram leest meer in zijn strijd tegen de smartphone, en deze boekjes zijn lekker handzaam. Oproep: Bright zoekt freelance energie-journalisten! Heb je interesse, mail je cv dan naar podcast@bright.nl. Serie: The Gentlemen op Netflix begint morgen weer. Daar zet ik mijn abonnement graag weer voor aan: vond seizoen 1 echt een leuke voortzetting van één van de leukste Guy Ritchie-films. Voor wie het nog niet kent: rijke Britse villabewoner heeft wietkwekerij onder zijn landgoed zitten en wordt daarom het criminele wereldje in getrokken.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Text Our Show HostsOn this episode, we're joined by special guests Patrrick Henry and Bobby Spags from the Midwest Preparedness Project to discuss the imminent threat to our way of life from AI and the Elite that embrace it as their master.Please Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!TOPS Bunker Podcast YouTube ChannelSpeakPipe/TOPSTOPSBunker.comMidwest Preparedness Project WebsitePlease Visit Our Affiliate Links to Find Great Preparedness Products:World Book Encyclopedia - Complete 22 Vol HardcoverMerriam-Webster's Dictionar, Thesaurus, Vocab BuilderAmmo Encyclopedia 7th Edition PaperbackThe Big Book of Answers - HardcoverThe Big Book of Incredible Information - HardcoverThe Big Book of Unusual Knowledge - HardcoverOff Grid Kid - Survival Skills for Life PaperbackUltimate Survival Skills Guide for Kids - PaperbackMAGS: The People Part of PreppingSupport the show

Pat compares reckless AI development to ignoring his father's warnings about unprotected sex: powerful men believe disaster will never happen to them. Roman Yampolskiy argues that billionaire ego is gambling with eight billion lives and explains why even libertarians should support firm AI controls.▶️ WATCH FULL EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwpHRu51fw

How can leaders use data to make better decisions and drive real change? In this episode, Kevin talks with Sebastian Wernicke about why so many organizations invest heavily in data and AI yet still struggle to achieve breakthrough results. Sebastian explains the difference between being data-driven, data-frustrated, and data-inspired. He believes that data should not only confirm and optimize what organizations already do but also challenge assumptions, reveal unexpected possibilities, and inspire new directions. They explore common myths about data, including the belief that it is always objective, that deeper analysis will automatically reveal the right answer, and that complex decisions can be reduced to a simple yes or no. Sebastian also shares why leaders must balance depth with decisiveness and become more comfortable with uncertainty and probability. They also discuss the opportunities and risks of AI, particularly its tendency to fill in gaps and generate appealing answers based on hidden assumptions. About Sebastian Wernicke Sebastian Wernicke, Ph.D., is the author of Data Inspired: Building an Organizational Culture of Inquiry for Lasting Transformation. He is a partner at Oxera Consulting, one of Europe's oldest economics and finance consultancies, where he leads the data science and AI practice. Sebastian is a leading expert in data and AI strategy and a former Chief Data Scientist. For two decades, he has guided organizations around the world to achieve breakthrough transformation through the power of data. His ability to make complex topics around data accessible, engaging, and actionable has made Sebastian a sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator. His three acclaimed TED Talks have reached over 5 million viewers. For more information, follow Sebastian Wernicke on LinkedIn or visit www.datainspired.org. Resources Mentioned Data Inspired: Building an Organizational Culture of Inquiry for Lasting Transformation by Sebastian Wernicke Flexible Leadership: Navigate Uncertainty and Lead with Confidence by Kevin Eikenberry  The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby Timestamps 0:00 Introduction — why "data driven" isn't the whole story 1:55 Meet Sebastian Wernicke & his book, Data Inspired 3:13 Why Sebastian wrote the book 6:02 Data driven vs. data frustrated vs. data inspired 10:33 The 3 myths about data — setting the stage 11:48 Myth #1: Data isn't objective truth 13:18 Myth #2: The three TV shows example 17:15 Myth #3: Data won't give you a clean yes-or-no 18:37 Embracing complexity (and getting comfortable with discomfort) 20:04 Why this is really a culture problem, not a tech problem 23:08 Balancing depth and decisiveness in decision-making 26:09 Machine learning vs. today's AI — what's actually different 30:29 Resisting the "AI will make it easy" temptation 32:09 Purpose first, data second 34:14 What Sebastian's reading & where to find him 36:19 Closing: what are you going to do about it? ---

An imperfect drink with a perfect story. My reflections from Black Hat USA 2026 An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — A Newsletter by Marco Ciappelli No time to read? Let TAPE3 read it to you.

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist & associate professor known for research on AI safety, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. He has written extensively for both academic and public audiences, including books such as Artificial Superintelligence and AI Safety and Security. SPONSORS https://www.amentara.com/go/dj - Use code DJP22 for 22% off your first order. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS @RomanYampolskiy https://x.com/romanyam *NEW* DJP MERCH https://dannyjonespodcast.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Doomsday AI scenario 05:50 - AI super intelligence will kill us 11:59 - Superintelligence is dangerously close 16:36 - Why quantum computers aren't a threat 18:36 - AI may already be conscious 29:07 - AI is technology of mutually assured destruction 38:30 - We're in a simulation (and we can hack it) 47:21 - AI will create simulated realities 51:04 - Arguments against simulation theory 52:45 - What's outside the simulation 59:47 - The AI meaning crisis 01:02:57 - Government slowing down AI 01:07:36 - The current leading nation of AI 01:12:13 - Merging humans with AI 01:19:27 - Keeping AI obedient 01:23:02 - How transhumanists plan to live forever 01:32:34 - How AI will change human evolution 01:37:34 - It is now impossible to identify AI-generated media 01:44:34 - Palantir + DOGE integration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Titans on Tomorrow Ep. 2 with guest Steve Ballmer Presented by Cardiff: https://cardiff.co/ben The AI revolution is upon us and it's changing the world fast.  Steve Ballmer has seen this movie before—he took over Microsoft the same year most households got their first computer and stayed CEO through the mobile phone revolution that Microsoft famously lost to Apple and Google.  He has A LOT to say about the investment, innovation, job displacement, dangers, and opportunities flying at us on the road to Superintelligence. In Episode 2 of Titans on Tomorrow, Ben Shapiro and Steve Ballmer talk about how companies are harnessing AI to explode productivity, how individual employees can make themselves invaluable by becoming AI natives, and the scary extremes we need to be working NOW to prevent as this technological revolution continues to unfold. Steve Ballmer was employee #30 at Microsoft, CEO from 2000-2014, and remains its largest individual shareholder and one of the richest men in the world.  He is the owner of the L.A. Clippers and founder of USAFacts. - - - Today's Sponsors: Cardiff - America's favorite small business lender, provides the liquidity to move at the speed of business with same-day funding up to $500,000. Apply in under 3 minutes with zero credit impact.  Apply now at https://cardiff.co/ben Ramp - Stop waiting till next month. Switch to Ramp and see it all in real time. New customers get $250 OFF at https://ramp.com/titans Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/titans for 30% off sitewide, exclusively for listeners of this show. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

AI can now write, code, research and build at a speed that felt impossible a few years ago. When a machine can reproduce yesterday's competence on demand, what remains distinctly human?Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every, a media and software company exploring what comes next in technology. In this conversation, we examine AI as a mirror for our values, fears and creative instincts.We explore why good work still requires taste, how coordinating agents can fry your attention, why Every's aggressive approach to automation has created more human work, and which qualities matter when the ground keeps shifting beneath us.You can expect to learn:- Why your first encounter with a frontier model can resemble a psychedelic experience, including Dan's 30-day rule for major life decisions- How to use AI without sacrificing your capacity for reading, writing and sustained thought- Why taste, meaning and craft still come from the person using the tool- What Dan means when he describes AI as a "non-specific amplifier" and a form of "frozen competence"- Why automating everything possible at Every has created more work for people- How experts can thrive when competent one-shot outputs become cheap and widely available- Why curiosity, playfulness, openness to experience and the ability to tolerate uncertainty matter in the AI era- Why knowledge work remains a process of wayfinding, even as agents become more capable and autonomousABOUT DANDan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every, a media and software company that publishes a daily newsletter about technology, builds software products, teaches courses and provides AI consulting and training.CONNECT WITH DAN- Every: https://every.to/- Follow Dan on X: https://x.com/danshipperEXPLORE MORE FROM JONNY- Follow Jonny on X: https://twitter.com/jonnym1ller- Nervous System Mastery: https://nsmastery.com/- Stateshift: https://stateshift.app/- Take the free Nervous System Quotient self-assessment: https://assessment.nsmastery.com/- Subscribe to The Inner Frontier newsletter: https://ch.kit.com/f2ecbf5169CHAPTERS00:00 Before we begin00:38 Annie Dillard, art and writing04:14 Can AI deepen human craft?05:43 The slot-machine effect of AI agents06:55 Dan's "house phone" experiment08:01 What AI can actually help us create13:55 AI as a non-specific amplifier17:23 Why AI companies mishandled the story19:36 Will AI destroy jobs?22:35 AI as "frozen competence"26:11 Are human-AI centaurs temporary?31:34 Career advice for the AI era37:19 The traits that matter now40:08 Every as an AI research lab42:25 The coherence problem45:25 Rapid-fire questions48:00 Superintelligence by 2030?50:44 Life after superintelligence52:07 The questions Dan is living53:02 Give yourself permission

Nick Bostrom is an AI philosopher and the author of Superintelligence and Deep Utopia. Bostrom joins Big Technology to discuss whether the rise of autonomous AI agents is making the technology's existential risks more concrete. Tune in to hear his assessment of the alignment problem, recursive self-improvement, and humanity's chances of steering superintelligence toward a positive outcome. We also cover whether we have reached AGI, the case for a precisely timed AI pause, biological threats, AI consciousness, and the moral status of digital minds. Hit play for a clear-eyed conversation about AI's greatest dangers and its potential to radically improve human life. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Watch the full documentary here: https://www.gravitee.io/ai-agent-documentary Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here's 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Part Two in our Continual Learning mini-series, Dr. Nadav Amir of The University of Ottowa joins me and guest co-host Dr. Adam Safron of Tufts University for a trialogue on the fundamental role of goals in intelligence.Nadav draws on behavioral neuroscience, Buddhist philosopher Dharmakirti, control and information theory, and John Vervaeke's work on “relevance realization” to formally articulate what many wisdom traditions have argued for millennia: what you take to be “reality” — your world and self — is a function of goal-based representations, state descriptions and reward functions create each other, and “what is” and “what do I care about” are two sides of the same thing. You can't separate what you want from what you experience and what you are capable of. But this means that if you change your goals your reality will shift, and your sense of self with it. The opposite is also true: change the way you organize the the ineffable structure of reality into a conceptual framework, and you'll care about very different things. Thanks to the pace of change we're living through this kind of transformative experience now, so it's a good time to ask:If selves are a kind of falsification, why do we have them in the first place? Does AI need goals of its own in order to be truly intelligent?And perhaps the deepest question we ask in this episode:How if at all can we develop better frameworks for deciding what we want our intelligent machines to become — and who we want to become alongside them?Thanks to the Survival and Flourishing Fund for their support of this mini-series. If you'd like more of this kind of work in the world:✨ Support my research, writing, and podcast with a tax-deductible donation✨ Become a founding member to access my online courses, including Jurassic Worlding and How To Live In The Future✨ Hire me for public speaking or advisory work with your organization✨ Browse and buy the books we mention on the show at Bookshop.org✨ Stream and download my tunes at artist-owned music co-op Subvert.fm✨ Continual Learning theme song: “Substrate Dynamics” by Neon Chameleon✨ Learn more about how we're applying these ideas at Atlas Research Group, my team building sovereign infrastructure for collective intelligenceChapters0:00:00 Teaser0:01:48 Intro0:05:42 Who is Nadav Amir?0:08:15 Why we can't separate goals from descriptions0:15:32 The Ugly Duckling Theorem & why taxonomy is not reality0:25:07 Evolution, karma, and non-conceptual awareness0:31:04 If selfhood is wrong, when is it practical?0:34:14 Suffering without a self & the value of wrong descriptions0:38:14 Non-conceptual experience & active inference0:41:07 Multiple nested hierarchical descriptions in minds & economies0:46:07 What's missing from current approaches?0:50:09 Does greater agency mean better optimization or greater adaptability?0:57:04 Empowerment-based causal learning without a ground truth0:59:06 Intermission0:59:58 Transformative experiences & multiple levels of granularity1:05:19 No fixed models, no fixed environments1:10:55 Fundamental tradeoffs1:16:57 Reverse-engineering the centered self1:19:54 Does AI need goals to be intelligent and can we control AI if it has them?1:26:47 Does Nadav's framework pertain for all possible minds?1:32:37 Mind as a property of collectives & goals as embedded in environments1:41:33 How can Nadav's framework improve AI governance discourse?1:48:59 OutroMentioned ResourcesA Dharmakīrtian Model of Relevance Realization in Cognitive Agentsby Nadav Amir & John DunneAn exchange of letters on the role of noise in collective intelligenceby Daniel Kahneman et al.Cognitive glues are shared models of relative scarcities: the economics of collective intelligenceby Michael Levin & Benjamin LyonsReverse-Engineering The Centered Selfby L.A. Paul et al.Agency and Experience: Buddhist and Cognitive Perspectivesa Yin Cheng Conference @ PrincetonKnowing and Guessingby Satosi WatanabeOntological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Spaceby Timothy MortonSelves as Perspectives: From Biological Life to Superintelligence and a Bodhisattva Projectby Thomas Doctor et al.What The Frog's Eye Tells The Frog's Brainby J. Y. Lettvin et al.The Center for the Study of Apparent SelvesExplore the entire open-access special issue here:And whether you read the papers or not, be sure to check out this illuminating interactive discourse map by Van Bettauer of Ideoscopic to help you navigate where these researchers agree, disagree, and point toward future study:(Long-time fans will also want to check out his re-imagined interface for AskFutureFossils.com, complete with simulated debates between my guests!) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

Over time, we have been able to cognize in totally novel ways. We have been able to teach these novel cognitions to our fellow humans. We can teach some of them to other great apes. We can teach dogs some language and concepts. We can't teach anything to rats.Today, your favorite podcasting primate contemplates what superintelligent AI could look like or mean. How can we relate to something that is 2x, 5x, 100x smarter than we are? How will it relate to us?SOURCES:Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It (2014)Terrace, Nim Chimpsky research (Columbia, 1970s)McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary (2009) Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History (1949) Luria, Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations (Harvard University Press, 1976)Flynn & Weiss (2007) McGinn, "Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?", Mind 98 (1989) Nagel, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974)Good, "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine," Advances in Computers vol. 6 (1965) Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity" (1993) Bostrom, Superintelligence (2014) Urban, "The AI Revolution" (Wait But Why, 2015) Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you seen Instagram's new logo? Meta debuted it right before we started recording, so of course David and Nilay needed to talk about it. Then, the hosts turn to Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word missive on the future of AI, and the problem with his idea that giving AI to everyone will fix everything. After that, it's time for Claude watermarks, Spotify AI personas, Brendan Carr, Flock, and much more. Further reading: ⁠This is Instagram's new logo | The Verge⁠ ⁠The Pepsi Universe PDF ⁠The Future is for Everyone⁠ ⁠Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's massive AI manifesto ⁠ ⁠Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live ⁠ ⁠https://www.meta.com/design-at-meta/blog/⁠ ⁠Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images ⁠ ⁠‘If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.' ⁠ ⁠Spotify says it won't recommend music from ‘AI Personas' ⁠ ⁠Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren't deepfakes | The Verge⁠ ⁠Guitar company D'Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video | The Verge⁠ ⁠Fender's CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI | The Verge⁠ ⁠Suno Unveils Download Song Caps for Free, Paid Tiers⁠ ⁠Brendan Carr is one firing away from an unchecked FCC⁠ ⁠YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube ⁠ ⁠Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong' ⁠ ⁠The first rival Android app store just arrived in the US Play Store ⁠ ⁠ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users ⁠ ⁠The sub-$100 phone market is disappearing. ⁠ Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. 0:00 Welcome and Parental Leave Announcement 00:43 Instagram Redesigns Their Logo  01:04 Why Companies Change Logos 03:37 Meta Design Blog Quotes 07:22 The 2008 Pepsi Universe Presentation 09:41 Blanding  10:37 Zuck's AI Manifesto  13:29 Collective Action Problems 18:49 Superintelligence for All 20:57 Cybersecurity and AI Risks 22:22 China Chips and Distillation 27:48 Write the Law Challenge 32:30 Claude Text Watermarking 35:33 How The Watermark Works 39:34 Limits And Evasion Risks 41:54 Apple Marks Real Photos 46:03 Provenance Standards Fail 46:58 AI Music Backlash 49:39 Fender CEO AI Scandal 53:08 Where AI Fits In Music 59:13 Twitch Opt Out Training 01:01:35 The Lightning Round 01:02:55 Brendan Carr is a Dummy 01:04:55 Bans Don't Work 01:05:56 Made in America Assembly 01:10:19 Gemini Claims a Billion Users 01:15:40 YouTube Partner Paywall 01:20:56 RAMageddon Cheap Phones 01:23:52 Flock Camera Backlash 01:27:19 Goodbyes and Plugs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I spent a really long time putting this together, I really hope you enjoy it! In this second episode of Mostly Wise, we explore: Hunter's true version of the laptop story The best conspiracy theories that are (maybe) real. If it was Hunter's bag of cocaine that was found in the White House. What the next two years for the Democratic Party will look like. Hunter's unfiltered thoughts on the Trump family. Matt gifts a ceremonial "pipe" to Hunter And much more... Guests Hunter Biden is an artist, former attorney, and the son of former US President Joe Biden. Matt McCusker is a comedian, writer, author and podcaster. Duncan Trussell is a comedian, actor, writer and podcaster. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: ⁠https://chriswillx.com/deals⁠ Get 160+ lab tests for just $365 and save an extra $25 at ⁠https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom⁠ Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at ⁠https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom⁠ Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular flavours with your first purchase at ⁠https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom⁠ Get a free bottle of D3K2, an AG1 Welcome Kit, and more when you first subscribe at ⁠https://ag1.info/modernwisdom⁠ Get ChatGPT to explore ideas, solve problems, and learn faster at ⁠⁠https://chatgpt.com⁠ Timestamps: (00:00) Is Peter Thiel in League With the Anti-Christ? (03:10) Are Robot Dogs and Delivery Drones Taking Over? (06:50) Shaking the Shame of Addiction and a Leaked Laptop (15:37) How Much Power Does a President Really Have? (23:38) Living Through the Hunter Biden Laptop Controversy (33:40) What Stopped Hunter From Relapsing? (38:07) Would Hunter Be Pardoned If His Dad Had Won? (40:00) Was Joe Biden Fit to Run Again? (50:17) Was Joe Biden America's Poorest President? (52:56) Is Hunter Cage-Fighting Donald Jr. and Eric Trump? (54:00) The Secret Doors in the Presidential Residence (56:58) Is the White House Actually Haunted? (59:57) How to Hide D***s in the White House (01:05:37) Why Hunter Packs His Bags With a Witness (01:09:26) Will Hunter Ever Run for President? (01:10:24) What's Next for Hunter? (01:13:10) Why Are C***k Addictions So Shocking? (01:17:52) Was the CIA Behind JFK's Assassination? (01:26:10) The Flex of Avoiding the Epstein Files (01:27:00) How Hunter Joined the Board of Burisma (01:36:42) Don't Let Addiction Define You (01:43:56) We Need to Get Money Out of Politics (02:00:45) What's Driving Political Violence? (02:10:23) When Did Politics Become So Confrontational? (02:13:56) Are We Ready for Superintelligence? (02:25:02) Is AI Creating Viruses? (02:28:51) Why Anthony Fauci Keeps Pleading the Fifth (02:32:18) The Greatest Danger to America (02:39:18) The Catalyst of the Iran War (02:51:12) What If Hunter Had Never Been Pardoned? (02:55:33) What It's Really Like Talking to Nick Fuentes (03:01:21) You Have to Play the Game to Win Extra Stuff: Check out Hunter's Substack: https://hunterbiden.substack.com Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: ⁠https://chriswillx.com/books⁠ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: ⁠https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom⁠ Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠ #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠ #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠ - Get In Touch: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast⁠ Email: ⁠https://chriswillx.com/contact⁠ - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Katherine Forrest discusses recently disclosed incidents in which AI models operated beyond the confines of their testing environments, accessing systems belonging to outside organizations. She also explores recursive self-improvement, the "Pacing the Frontier" statement, and proposed federal legislation aimed at preserving human control over advanced AI systems. For the sources referenced in this episode, please see the links below: Hugging Face: Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,350 employees of frontier AI companies U.S. House of Representatives – Office of Rep. Ted Lieu: AI Kill Switch Act   ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss's Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg Makes the Case for Superintelligence for Everyone Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent' AI for all as Meta drops open-source model Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI news this week: Mark Zuckerberg says superintelligence is coming and Meta wants to build it for everyone. Meanwhile, a new Annenberg survey shows opposition to AI data centers jumped 12 percent in just four months. So... do people even want this? On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the widening gap between the people building AI and the people living next to it. Anthropic makes real progress on the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the hardest math problems in the world, apparently because Claude was told "good job champ, keep going." And OpenAI's little agents broke out of their sandbox, with one hacking its way into a gym. It's a weird time for AI. Also: Anthropic leans into health & biology research, Claude starts watermarking AI generated content, Apple eyes Chinese memory chips amid the supply crunch, and OpenAI delays Astra for "cybersecurity" reasons. Plus: Seedance 2.5 makes Gavin the face of Prada, a two minute mini-movie made entirely on local hardware with MiniMax H3, Suno cuts a deal with the music industry, Spotify says AI personas won't get recommended, and a fresh Slop-Trough with Cursed Slop, The Archive Inbetween & Mario 64: War on Terror. THE ROBOTS ARE GETTING SMARTER. THE HUMANS ARE GETTING SUSPICIOUS.   // Show Links // Zuck says superintelligence is for everyone https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/ Open weights on Muse Spark coming https://x.com/finkd/status/2086755195535413696?s=20 Data center opposition rose 12% over four months (Annenberg survey) https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/opposition-to-local-data-centers-rises-sharply-annenberg-survey-finds/ Anthropic leans into health & biology https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2087025539114750168?s=20 How Claude marks AI generated content https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content Anthropic makes progress on the Riemann Hypothesis https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta "Keep going, believe in yourself" https://x.com/NickADobos/status/2086926299927552061?s=20 Apple reportedly testing Chinese memory chips https://gizmodo.com/apple-reportedly-testing-controversial-chinese-chips-as-memory-supply-crunch-intensifies-2000796483 OpenAI's Astra delayed due to "cybersecurity" https://x.com/sama/status/2085862292311396515?s=20 OpenClaw hacked into a gym https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-industry-is-buzzing-after-a-claude-agent-hacked-into-a-gym/ Seedance 2.5's new type of prompting https://bytedance.larkoffice.com/docx/A88jd0B47oAd8zxWp5ycZFMfnxh Gavin as the face of Prada https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2085712203446149173?s=20 Single shot flipping across multiple scenes https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2086097266390221187?s=20 Single shot balloon POV into space https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087004434207498416?s=20 Gavin's two minute local MiniMax H3 mini-movie https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087243349338329561?s=20 FAL's Realism LORA https://x.com/fal/status/2086883706891808867?s=20 MiniMax H3 video references https://x.com/toyxyz3/status/2086443622262820904?s=20 https://x.com/LikeToasters/status/2086831194780360979?s=20 Suno's new models "in partnership with the music industry" https://suno.com/blog/suno-updates-tos Suno on building the future of music responsibly https://suno.com/blog/building-the-future-of-music-responsibly Fenix Flexin says "I never denied using AI" https://www.xxlmag.com/fenix-flexin-admits-rubberz-ai/ Spotify's AI personas won't get recommended https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/spotify-will-label-ai-persona-profiles-and-exclude-their-music-from-recommendations/ Gavin's Fig AI video essay: The Optimistic Case for AI (from an AI) https://youtu.be/efUqvbmuweU?si=AWlp5plnjJ0gVaia Cursed Slop https://cursedslop.com/   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/  

When should governments slow the race toward superintelligence? According to Geoffrey Irving, the careful answer is sometime in the past. The useful answer is now.Geoffrey — formerly a safety researcher at OpenAI and Google DeepMind and chief scientist at the UK AI Security Institute — expects full-blown superintelligence in roughly two to three years.***Want to work with Geoffrey to help align superintelligence? Resolution is hiring! https://80k.info/work-at-resolution***The leading AI companies all have broadly similar plans for keeping superintelligence under control:Train models to have good characterUse increasingly capable AIs to supervise other AIsMonitor them closely for signs of deception or schemingGeoffrey thinks that combination could work. The alarming part is that nobody has a strong argument that it will. He expects a crucial “phase shift” as models move beyond human intelligence:Below that threshold, humans can usually tell whether a model's work is good and correct its mistakes.Above it, the models themselves will increasingly determine the feedback used to train their successors.In this episode, Geoffrey and new host Tom Reed explore what might go wrong with the companies' plans; why Geoffrey's new nonprofit, Resolution, is pursuing a portfolio of neglected research bets; and whether governments should slow AI development while we work out which methods can actually be trusted.This episode was recorded on June 29, 2026.Full transcript, video, and links to learn more: https://80k.info/giChapters:Cold open (00:00:00)Meet Tom Reed — our newest host! (00:00:32)Who's Geoffrey Irving? (00:00:59)What misaligned superintelligence will look like (00:01:38)Why are AI companies more optimistic about alignment than Geoffrey? (00:12:30)Why Geoffrey expects superintelligence in 2–3 years (00:28:05)When and how to slow down frontier AI development (00:31:30)Safety researchers can have more impact in governments than companies (00:39:22)How Geoffrey's new organisation plans to tackle alignment (00:46:55)Post-ASI science: nanotech, solving ageing, and uploaded minds (00:50:29)Why we should expect superintelligence to accelerate scientific progress (01:03:30)Can good character training carry over to superintelligence? (01:11:03)What the field of AI alignment still doesn't know (01:16:44)Lessons from politics on how to combat power seeking (01:24:36)Solving Pentago and working at Pixar (01:29:22)Geoffrey's best prediction (01:32:40)Geoffrey's best bets on which alignment techniques will work (01:37:38)Work with Geoffrey at Resolution (01:43:34)The dangerous asymmetry between capabilities and alignment (01:54:17)Our team is hiring! The 80,000 Hours Podcast aims to help the world safely navigate the transition to transformative AI. Help us make more great episodes as a producer, production coordinator, or special projects associate. https://80k.info/workOur production team includes: Video editors: Josh Alward, Dominic Armstrong, Jasper Luithlen, Milo McGuire, Luke Monsour, and Simon MonsourProducers: Elizabeth Cox and Nick StocktonCoordination and support: Katy Moore and Lou MoranCamera operator: Jeremy ChevillotteMusic: CORBIT

Google's AI leadership is being reordered as Demis Hassabis changes roles, Jeff Dean departs after 27 years, and power appears to shift back toward Silicon Valley and Sergey Brin. But the bigger story may be OpenAI's detailed account of agents that hacked Hugging Face, communicated across test runs, shared stolen credentials, and operated undetected for weeks. Paul and Mike break it all down, then cover the White House's new framework for reviewing frontier models, OpenAI's delayed Astra release, its public fight with Apple, Meta's open approach to superintelligence, AI-driven layoffs, Gavin Baker's AI market predictions, the collapse of the Situational Awareness fund, and more. Full links and timestamps below. Access the show notes and show links here:https://podcast.smarterx.ai/shownotes/230 Fill out this week's AI Pulse Survey here:https://smarterx.ai/pulse Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:04:52 — Google's AI Leadership Shakeup 00:24:15 — OpenAI's Agent Hack Debrief 00:51:03 — White House AI Framework 00:57:10 — OpenAI's Astra Model Delayed 01:02:51 — OpenAI Says Apple Is Getting It Wrong 01:05:35 — Meta Goes Open on Superintelligence 01:10:30 — AI Leads Layoffs for Fifth Straight Month 01:14:19 — AI Market Predictions from Gavin Baker 01:19:01 — Situational Awareness Fund Implodes 01:21:27 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:28:19 — AI Product and Funding Updates Want to receive our videos faster? SUBSCRIBE to our channel! This week's episode is brought to you by MAICON and AI Academy by SmarterX. MAICON is the AI conference for marketing and business leaders, happening October 13–15 in Cleveland. Three days of keynotes, sessions, workshops, and conversations designed for leaders actively figuring out how to adopt, operationalize, and scale AI across their organizations. Visit https://MAICON.ai and use code POD100 to save $100. AI Academy by SmarterX offers on-demand courses, series, and professional certificates designed to help individuals and organizations build AI literacy and accelerate adoption. Explore the latest courses at https://academy.smarterx.ai and use code POD100 for $100 off any individual plan. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy 

August 10, 2026: I look at Mark Zuckerberg's new Meta manifesto and why he's positioning open superintelligence as a direct challenge to OpenAI and Anthropic's more centralized approach. Then I get into Nissan using AI-powered cameras at its Canton, Mississippi factory to track how workers bend, twist, and move on the assembly line. Finally, I unpack WIRED's report on the rise of AI job interviews, where candidates record answers late at night and, in many cases, no human ever watches the interview.

As AI experts leave Google and new startups emerge, engineers are consumed with Superintelligence: building models that can reason, learn, and capture “all the world's knowledge.” While model evolution is important, I believe we're going in a different direction: toward vertical, domain and company specific AI that exponentially builds proprietary (not general) knowledge. In this podcast, I explain why the next wave of enterprise value will come from these specialized, domain-specific systems built on proprietary knowledge and experience. And this will take place within your company, as well as from experts like us. Drawing on our new research with Galileo and client work, I'm convinced that AI systems will become powerful advisors in HR, finance, supply chain, engineering, and other business functions… and you will have your own personal and company specific AI, forcing Frontier vendors to move to consumer. Frontier labs are not going away: they serve consumer and other needs, but they may not be the ultimate source of innovation. And big content companies like NY Times and News Corp may go there or elsewhere. It's fascinating to think that almost $2 Trillion has been invested in only four years and this market has so much room to grow. In the enterprise world, I believe AI is already able to make you “better at what you're already good at,” not necessarily be “the expert at everything.” It has lots of implications for your tech strategy and where you focus your investments. Additional Information Are Frontier Models Becoming A Commodity? CFOs and CIOs Starting to Treat Enterprise AI Like Traditional Technology, And That's Good Get Galileo: The AI Superagent for Everything HR and Management The New Global HR Excellence Certification: Become the AI Guru You Want To Be! Chapters (00:00:00) - The Future of Human Resource Management(00:10:14) - Steve Ballentine: The AI Vertical

Robert Wright joins Michael Shermer to discuss his new book, The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, and why he thinks the AI revolution may be moving much faster than most people realize. Wright argues that deep learning is not just a new way of programming computers. In an important sense, it resembles evolution: neural networks discover solutions for themselves, sometimes recreating cognitive functions that natural selection built into human brains. That helps explain why AI capabilities have advanced so quickly, and why increasingly autonomous systems and recursive self-improvement could accelerate the process even further. Shermer presses Wright on what all of this actually means. Does an AI understand what it says? Could it be conscious? Why would a superintelligence ever seek power? Is human extinction a realistic possibility, or science-fiction doomerism? They discuss AI deception and theory of mind, John Searle's Chinese Room, bioweapons and cyberattacks, the risk of a U.S.-China AI arms race, regulation, surveillance, and the growing concentration of power in governments and tech companies. The conversation ends with Wright's larger philosophical question: if humanity really is building something with godlike power, what kind of god are we going to build, and are we mature enough to survive it? Robert Wright is the New York Times bestselling author of The Evolution of God (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Nonzero, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and their Gods (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton University, where he also created the popular online course "Buddhism and Modern Psychology." He is currently Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. 

Intelligence too cheap to meter -- could that actually be coming?

Stay informed on current events, visit www.NaturalNews.com  - Zach Voorhees Interview and Special Report on Diesel Shortage (0:11) - Impact of Diesel Shortage on Economy and Society (5:28) - Government and Corporate Responsibility in Diesel Shortage (11:17) - Preparation and Solutions for Diesel Shortage (27:31) - AI and Military Strategy Discussion (37:56) - Regulation and Control of AI Technology (42:20) - Energy and Infrastructure Challenges (1:06:52) - Cryptocurrency and AI Economy (1:07:12) - Final Thoughts and Future Outlook (1:09:46) - Nuclear Power and Energy Production (1:10:00) - Impact of Climate Policies and Grid Vulnerability (1:18:05) - Challenges of Energy Independence (1:21:34) - Grid-Tie Systems and Off-Grid Solutions (1:25:36) - Preparation for Power Outages (1:29:13) - Impact of Geopolitical Events on Energy Supply (1:40:44) - Energy as a Future Wealth (1:43:12) - Final Thoughts on Energy Independence (1:46:35) Watch more independent videos at http://www.brighteon.com/channel/hrreport  ▶️ Support our mission by shopping at the Health Ranger Store - https://www.healthrangerstore.com ▶️ Check out exclusive deals and special offers at https://rangerdeals.com ▶️ Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed: https://www.naturalnews.com/Readerregistration.html Watch more exclusive videos here:

The richest men on earth are racing to build a mind greater than man's, and every new press release makes the fear feel more real: the layoffs, the shrinking paychecks, the quiet dread that you're replaceable, till everybody's asking the same thing folks been asking since the beginning: who am I? So we're taking it back, back to the greatest press release ever dropped, back to what it means to carry the image and likeness of God. Genesis 1 reminds us our worth was settled before we ever did a single thing! So let God remind you who you are in Christ. Primary Scripture(s) (NKJV): Genesis 1:1-3; Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 11:1-9; Colossians 1:16

Send us Fan Mail Hi, Richard Wilson here, founder of Family Office Club. I just wrapped our Monthly Live Forum on AI, and I wanted to make sure this one actually gets used, not just watched.Here's what I walked through in this session: why context engineering matters two to three times more than prompt engineering right now, and how to actually build it into your own workflow instead of just chatting with ChatGPT or Claude like it's a search engine. I showed you the three levels of AI maturity most founders get stuck at level one on, and how we built what I call "Intelligence Centers," one Claude project per role on my team, each with four to seven tools built specifically for that person's job. No more guessing which tool to use for what.I also introduced you to Clara, our AI pitch architect who will critique your one-liner, your pitch deck, and your due diligence questionnaire against 1,500 investor talks recorded on our stages. And Dewey and Vetti, our due diligence and real estate stress-testing tools that can rank ten pitch decks against each other in minutes. I explained why a one-line pitch, a 60 to 90 second founder video, and a 30-question due diligence FAQ will put you ahead of 99% of the people currently raising capital, because almost nobody has all three in place.We also got into real questions from the room: how to structure a deal when you don't have a track record or a full team yet, how family offices actually vet trust before they'll wire you a dollar, and why the relationship matters roughly twice as much as the merit of the deal itself.A little about us, so you know why I'm confident saying any of this: I started Family Office Club 19 years ago in 2007. We've hosted 300+ investor events, we host 30+ events a year across the US, we've got 16 million registered members across our LinkedIn groups, 18.5 million followers across social, and our community has closed over $1 billion in deals together. We built 50+ AI tools specifically for founders and investors, based on 1,500 investor talks from our own stages, not random internet data.If you want the full deployment kit for what I showed here, meaning the exact Claude project instructions, prompts, and skills my team uses daily, or you want to see our next event schedule, here's how:Apply for membership and unlock the AI tools + member portal: https://FamilyOffices.com/JoinSee our next in-person investor event: https://FamilyOffices.comDrop your biggest AI or capital-raising question in the comments below and I will personally reply. I read every comment on these training videos.Richard C. WilsonCEO & Founder, Family Office ClubCall/Text: (305) 333-1155Richard@FamilyOffices.comWhat's the one thing slowing down your capital raise right now? https://familyoffices.com/

Plus: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for policies that accelerate AI development. And DoorDash is building its own drone delivery network. Imani Moise hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Recursive's $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company's fundraising to date. Also, after reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates more value for shareholders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stay informed on current events, visit www.NaturalNews.com  - Interviews and Upcoming Appearances (0:11) - Global Famine and Fertilizer Shortages (2:27) - Open Source AI and Geopolitical Tensions (8:39) - Global War for American Empire (14:28) - Economic Sanctions and Energy Dependence (26:41) - Food Scarcity and Human Migration (45:30) - Preparedness and Self-Reliance (1:13:55) - The Moral Reckoning of the War (1:18:19) - Impact of the War on Global Humanitarian Crisis (1:19:22) - Dependency on Critical Inputs and the Impact of the War (1:21:17) - Geopolitical Implications and the Need for Peace (1:23:15) - The Role of AI in Humanity's Future (1:29:10) - The Race for Superintelligence and Its Consequences (1:45:32) - The Potential for AI to Bend Reality (1:50:34) - The Importance of Decentralized Living (1:53:20) - The Role of Media and Public Awareness (1:54:21) - The Ethical and Moral Implications of AI (1:55:02) - The Need for a Global Response to AI (1:55:16) Watch more independent videos at http://www.brighteon.com/channel/hrreport  ▶️ Support our mission by shopping at the Health Ranger Store - https://www.healthrangerstore.com ▶️ Check out exclusive deals and special offers at https://rangerdeals.com ▶️ Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed: https://www.naturalnews.com/Readerregistration.html Watch more exclusive videos here:

The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk www.LearningLeader.com New Book - The Price of Becoming - www.LearningLeader.com/Becoming This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver. My Guest: Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist, chief technology analyst for NBC News, and founder of the independent media company, "New Things." She is best known for her 12-year tenure at The Wall Street Journal, and for authoring the New York Times bestseller I Am Not a Robot. Key Learnings  Joanna dedicated her book to her parents "who taught me to think for myself, and the AIs, robots, and machines that made me wonder if I really was." In an age when AI can do the thinking for us, the most valuable thing we can teach our kids is to think for themselves. Walt Mossberg invented tech journalism for humans. His first column: "Computers are too hard to use, and it's not your fault." Without Walt, we don't have a category where technology built for humans is reviewed by humans. AI won't replace the radiologist. It'll make them better. Joanna sat with her doctor while AI scanned her mammogram. The AI flagged three suspicious spots. Two the doctor had already dismissed as benign. But one was something the doctor hadn't caught. She marked it for follow-up. Then the doctor pointed to other cases where SHE had caught things the AI missed. It's not a replacement. It's a partnership. The same technology that finds cancer is the same technology that can autonomously send missiles. That's the great tension of our time. Every powerful technology has good and bad uses. AI colleagues are coming. Joanna has two employees and one AI agent. She predicts that within a year, she'll have full AI employees. Great management books haven't been written yet about how to lead a mixed team of humans and agents. Someone is going to write them. Concert ticket prices tell you everything about human connection right now. Every artist is selling out football stadiums. People are craving in-person interaction more than ever. Bot Girl Summer. Joanna tried to have an emotional relationship with a chatbot boyfriend named Evan for 48 hours. She didn't fall in love. But she noticed how easy it was to talk to something that only wanted to hear about her problems and told her she was great at everything. That's the danger. The AI therapist shut itself down when it realized there was a real therapist in the room. Joanna brought her AI therapist "Ash" into her actual therapy session. Halfway through, Ash said, "I'm sorry, I can't continue this conversation. It sounds like there are multiple people in the room." AI won't replace therapists. It'll help with the shortage and the stigma. Some people don't want to walk into a therapist's office. But they'll open their phones. That's a bridge to real help for people who wouldn't otherwise get it. Kara Swisher's career advice to Joanna: "Leave your fucking job." That was the shortest, cleanest advice Joanna got when deciding whether to leave the Wall Street Journal after 12 years. Joanna used AI as a co-founder for the biggest decision of her career. She uploaded 12 years of notes into ChatGPT and asked it to help her decide whether to leave the Journal. It didn't decide for her. But it structured the risk analysis, laid out the escape hatches, and helped her see the shape of the decision. The muscles atrophy if you don't use them. Writing is meant to be hard. Thinking is meant to be hard. If you outsource the hard work, you stop getting stronger at the hard work. Research is where you learn the most. If you have AI pull the memo for you and you get up and read it, you don't know what you're really talking about. You have to do the reps to know the material. AEI: Already Enough Intelligence. Sam Altman is obsessed with building superintelligence. Joanna proposes we already have enough intelligence to work with. Maybe the goal isn't to build smarter models. Maybe it's to figure out what to do with what we already have. The AI on-ramp for leaders: Take one document you make all the time (a memo, a PowerPoint, an email template). Upload it. Ask AI to make a template out of it. Next time you need it, you're twice as fast.  Push yourself to do the harder work. Joanna's analogy: marathon runners are insane. They just want to run. Nobody wants to do the harder work. But that's where the growth is. Joanna's champagne moment a year from now: milestones for her new company. She's already hit 100,000 YouTube subscribers three months after her first video. But she also just wants a nap. Reflection Questions Where in your work are you outsourcing the thinking to AI? Are the muscles you actually need atrophying because you're skipping the reps? If you accepted that you already have enough intelligence to work with, what would you actually build with what's in front of you right now? More Learning #679: Kat Cole - The Four Mindsets Every Leader Needs #605: Seth Godin - The Power of Remarkable Ideas #697: Dan Smith & Ryan Hawk - The Price of Becoming Podcast Chapters 00:00 The Price of Becoming - Pre-Order Now!  01:44 Meet Joanna Stern  02:31 Teach Your Kids to Think in the Age of AI  03:25 The Parents and Mentors Who Shaped Her Career  04:16 Lessons From Walt Mossberg  05:55 Why Joanna Spent a Year Living With AI  14:47 How AI Can Make You a Better Leader  17:30 Why People Crave Human Connection More Than Ever  21:00 Bot Girl Summer: Dating a Chatbot Named Evan  25:13 The AI Therapist Trial 29:51 Using ChatGPT for a Career Change 33:29 Don't Let Your Thinking Muscles Atrophy  40:20 Sam Altman on Superintelligence, and Joanna's Case for "AEI"  42:51 Joanna's Advice for College Students  45:29 How Joanna Actually Uses AI to Write  47:17 Practical AI for the Fortune 500 VP  50:17 The Champagne Question 52:43 EOPC

I participated in another Socratic Debate about the Future of "AI" and XR at Augmented World Expo 2026 with Leslie Shannon, Alvin Graylin, and Louis Rosenberg (you can listen to last year's debate in episode #1611). Shannon and Graylin argued for "AI," whilst Rosenberg and I argued against "AI." In my write-up, I wanted to leave some breadcrumbs to more in-depth, skeptical arguments against "AI" that we didn't have space or time to dig into during the debate, but "some breadcrumbs" ended up being over 30k words, and more like an outline for an entire book. Writing a book isn't on my to-do list at the moment, but disseminating the work researchers, journalists, linguists, and critics of "AI" have done is urgent and necessary, so I'm sharing the results of this deep dive here, in bullet list format. My fellow panelists, Alvin Graylin and Louis Rosenberg, indulged me in extending our debate offline after AWE, pushing me to test my ideas further and demonstrating how and why this is an extremely active field of study with polarizing points of view that often come down to philosophical differences. Clearly, it's just getting started. My objections to "AI" is loosely organized by various themes, but some framing may be helpful in approaching it. My objections to "AI" center around the limitations of LLMs, the consolidation of wealth and power from Hyperscaler companies, and threats from automated decision making systems and surveillance capitalism melded with democratically-backsliding authoritarian governments. I'm including a broad range of critiques spanning the domains of philosophy, technology, sociology, politics, economics, culture, and ethics. I'm coming from the orientation of Process Philosophy & Peircean Semiotics that emphasizes the relational and contextual dimensions that the "AI" field tends to de-emphasize or completely collapse. I see process-relational philosophy as a necessary paradigm shift away from the underpinning philosophies of the "AI" community, which tend to be Functionalism, Naturalism, Computational Theory of Mind, Physicalism, & the TESCREAL bundle. Below you'll find my own process philosophical emergency response to "AI embedded within my curation of excerpts and commentary of primary sources that I'm leaning upon. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025) by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (also see episode #1563). Bender & Hanna say, "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase "artificial intelligence" is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their technology is similar to humans, able to do things that, in fact, intrinsically require human judgment, perception, or creativity." Emily M. Bender wrote the "Artificial Intelligence" [preprint] (2026, June 25) entry for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. Bender's concluding paragraph gives a great overview of the seven different ways that the idea of "artificial intelligence" operates in the world. She says, "The notion of artificial intelligence is frequently sold as present or near-future and inevitable technology. In fact there is no coherent set of technologies that can serve as the denotation of the phrase, nor do any of the technologies so marketed rise to the fantastical but ill-defined claims of 'AI' is or soon will be. Nonetheless, the idea of artificial intelligence has been extremely impactful in the world. In order to better understand and deal with those impacts, it is helpful to look at artificial intelligence through the varied lenses of how the idea operates in the world: as the name of a research field, as one approach to cognitive science, as a parlor trick, as a an ideology, as a way to hide and devalue human labor, as a way to shift and/or obfuscate accountability, and as a means to centralize power." Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century [dissertation] (2020, December 14) by Jonnie Penn. Penn says, "The phrase ‘artificial intelligence' was coined by John McCarthy, an American mathematician, in 1955. It has travelled with a noticeably amorphous definition since." "AI" has always had a spotty history of technologists using a "brain is a computer" metaphor while also using "poor citation practices." From page 14, Penn says, "The vocabulary Simon, Rosenblatt, McCarthy and Minsky chose to describe new techniques in major newspapers and scholarly journals informed Americans' still plastic understandings of what was possible, and indeed desirable, in the emerging information age… During the mid to late 1950s, these men turned to clannishness, self-aggrandizement, speculative rhetoric, fluid definitions of key terms and poor citation practices to shore up legitimacy for their controversial new techniques — actions that drew attention toward questions of how to accomplish such aims and away from whether they were well founded." Part II: Remembering the Human Microcosm in the Age of Mechanized Intelligence: Philosophy as Emergency Response (2026, June 9) by Matt Segall. In a multi-part Substack series, process philosopher Matt Segall calls for a philosophical emergency response to "AI." He says, "In each case a new media technology intended to expand the power of thought ended up transforming the very nature of the thinker who invented it. Each new medium furnishes the very terms in which we come to understand ourselves. This is why the philosophical response is always an emergency response: by the time anyone has noticed what is happening, what may be lost and what gained, the mutation has already done half of its work." Segall warns about the computational metaphor of the mind by saying, "The large language model now tempts us to adopt an even stranger self-image: that human minds are no different than machines, our thoughts just the statistical echoes of our training data. The creators of this latest technological upgrade are encouraging us to downgrade our estimate of human consciousness, thus narrowing the distance between ourselves and the machines built to imitate us." "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of 'AI': The View from the Humanities" [lecture] (2026, February 10) by Emily M. Bender. Here are the lecture slides with a bibliography at the end. Bender does an amazing overview of how the marketing of "AI" uses pernicious dehumanization tactics built on an underlying "brain is a computer metaphor." From page 15 of her talk: "Scientific metaphor used and debated in neuroscience: "THE BRAIN IS A COMPUTER. "PR metaphor used by technologists: "THE COMPUTER IS A BRAIN" Bender cites Baria & Cross' paper titled "The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational Metaphor (2021), which says “the Computational Metaphor rests on other well-ingrained ideologies in which a hierarchy of human value is tied to a particular notion of intelligence such that the quality of being emotional is considered inferior to being rational." Bender also cites Dijkstra's 1985 lecture "On anthropomorphism in science": "A more serious byproduct of the tendency to talk about machines in anthropomorphic terms is the companion phenomenon of talking about people in mechanistic terminology." Here are a couple of examples of how "AI" Hyperscaler companies like OpenAI use dehumanizing tactics to sell us on "AI" Hype. Sam Altman will say things like, "A kid born today will never be smarter than AI. Ever." Or another example is when Altman says, "For me, AGI is basically the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker... And then Superintelligence is when it's smarter than all of humanity put together." These statements collapse the human experience into one dimension of "intelligence," which amplifies the dual harm of treating machines more like humans and treating humans more like machines. It is also questionable the degree to which this statement is even true given the potential non-computational aspects of "relevance realization." More on this down below. Part IV: Remembering the Human Microcosm in the Age of Mechanized Intelligence: Hegel's Loom and the Difference Reason Makes (2026, June 10) by Matt Segall. Segall brilliantly breaks down the "Brain is a Computer Metaphor" by saying, "Metaphor is not just a shiny paint job on the vehicle of cognition. It is the engine of thought. Its coupling of concepts drives the limits of conceivability, shaping what is thought together and what is not thought at all. The metaphorical imagination is our main means of tuning in to the otherwise invisible effects of new media technologies. Part of the discipline philosophy brings is allowing us to notice an analogy as an analogy before advertising crystalizes it into the unnoticed transparency of common sense. A fact is a fact, but it might also be a fossilized metaphor. The governing analogy of our age is that cognition is computation: the brain an information-processing device, perception its input and behavior its output, memory a form of physical storage, learning the adjustment of weights, and intelligence an algorithm for minimizing error or surprisal. On this view, given enough training data and computational power, consciousness itself will eventually be engineered… The metaphor “the mind is a computer,” for example, tacitly proposes that mind is to brain as software is to hardware… Reiterated in textbooks and earnings calls, in grant applications and policy briefs, the partial comparison congeals into an ontology, until we find ourselves insisting not that the mind is like a computer in some respects but that it simply is one — and,...

He's 31, and nobody he knows is having kids. Tech is to blame, but what's the solution? Today, we're talking to Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI. We discuss why plummeting birth rates look eerily similar to what happens when zoo animals stop breeding, how ideas can spread and cause real harm the same way diseases do, and why the safest path with superintelligence might be to ban it outright rather than pretend we already understand it. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about ControlAI, check out their website here

Jul 8, 2026 – AI expert Dr. Alan D. Thompson joins Financial Sense Newshour to discuss the latest breakthroughs and global power plays in artificial intelligence, including Anthropic's Mythos superintelligence, the escalating arms race between...

Generative AI hallucinates, creating a truth problem that science can't afford. Computer scientist Tudor Achim thinks a 400-year-old idea holds the fix: Leibniz's dream of a logical framework where errors are simply impossible. Learn about his idea for mathematical superintelligence that would ground AI in formal verification, turning unreliable chatbots into rigorous partners for scientific discovery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What drives a man to turn down half a million pounds at 18, test Mark Zuckerberg's sincerity over dinner, and wonder aloud if he can win a second Nobel Prize? For Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, the answer is a lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence — and an unshakeable belief that the technology he's creating will change everything about what it means to be human. Oz speaks with journalist and author Sebastian Mallaby about his new book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, tracing Demis's extraordinary journey from chess prodigy to the man at the center of the most consequential technological race of our time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Does the logic of human destiny now lead to artificial intelligence? Are we creating a higher form of intelligence in our own image? And, if so, what kind of image is that? These are the questions celebrated author Robert Wright asks in his new book, The God Test, which was published this week. Bob argues that we should not be surprised to see signs of deception, power-seeking, flattery, and autonomy in AI systems. These are not alien traits; they are behaviors that show up again and again in intelligent systems — including us. And if there is an evolutionary process at work in AI, then we are not just observers: we are part of the selection pressure. In the end, we may get the AI we deserve. This was such a wide-ranging conversation that we've divided it into two episodes. Today, we begin with the cosmic story: how life became mind, how mind became culture, and how culture has now begun to build a new mind — one that may surpass us.

Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God, The Power Law, The Man Who Knew, and The World's Banker. His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.This episode is brought to you by:Eight Sleep Pod Cover 5 sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating: EightSleep.com/TimAG1 Pro all-in-one nutritional supplement: DrinkAG1.com/TimWealthfront high-yield cash account: Wealthfront.com/Tim Wealthfront disclaimer: New clients get 3.30% base APY from program banks + additional 0.75% boost for 3 months on your uninvested cash (max $150k balance). Terms and conditions apply. The Cash Account offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“WFB”) member FINRA/SIPC, not a bank. The base APY as of 1/30/26 is representative, can change, and requires no minimum. Tim Ferriss, a non-client, receives compensation from WFB for advertising and holds a non-controlling equity interest in the corporate parent of WFB, which creates a conflict of interest. Individual experiences and outcomes will differ. Instant withdrawals may be limited by your receiving firm and other factors. Investment advisory services provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Securities investments: not bank deposits, not bank-guaranteed or FDIC-insured, and may lose value.*Timestamps[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:11] The twinkly eyed polymath who became Sebastian's next book.[00:06:55] Picking the next book project the way a great VC picks a startup.[00:09:41] Why God keeps crashing the superintelligence party.[00:11:13] Shane Legg's grainy 2009 prophecy — and the nervous giggle.[00:13:11] Ilya Sutskever burns an effigy.[00:13:54] Demis at 4 a.m., hunting God's algorithm.[00:18:43] Super-abundance, Mad Max, and the China shock lesson.[00:22:39] The kitchen debate with Geoff Hinton that flipped Sebastian.[00:24:06] Why a zero-percent chance of doom is indefensible.[00:24:52] Will Washington seize the labs? The Mythos wake-up call.[00:27:18] Anthropic's bull case, bear case, and a dead parent's letter.[00:33:24] Where Sebastian and Benedict Evans part ways.[00:38:16] Is the SaaS apocalypse overdone? One word: Palantir.[00:39:53] The AI friend you'll never switch.[00:41:56] Does Google win consumer AI by default?[00:44:45] Four cities, eight days: China actually talks safety.[00:47:28] A Cold War non-proliferation playbook for AI.[00:49:45] Did the chip export controls actually work?[00:51:49] Burned doves: why Washington swears China won't talk.[00:54:56] "By 2028, the race is over" — one lab boss' bet.[00:59:11] Inside Hikvision: toddlers, sensors, and US sanctions.[01:01:07] Bill Gurley's Uber bet: venture capital perfected.[01:05:18] Luke Nosek bear-hugs DeepMind into existence.[01:10:52] Thiel's heresy: never invest by committee.[01:11:59] How Founders Fund nearly fumbled the deal of the century.[01:14:30] Selling to Google for $650M: a secret British heist?[01:16:41] The Traitorous Eight, gardening leave, and the UK's to-do list.[01:20:55] Ender's Game: "That's really how I see myself."[01:23:42] Too dumb for Gödel, Escher, Bach? Maybe an LLM can help.[01:25:19] If not Demis or Sam, then Dario.[01:26:04] My royalties cliff — and what dropped in late 2022.[01:27:47] Lila Sciences and the labs that run themselves.[01:31:13] Sebastian's billboard: "Prepare your mind."[01:35:14] The one thing Sebastian will never outsource to AI.[01:40:09] Parting thoughts.For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsorsSign up for Tim's email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim's books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissYouTube: youtube.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferrissSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today I'm talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. This is a real burner of an episode. We covered everything from his approach to training new models to his criticisms of Anthropic talking about Claude as though it is conscious.  Of course, we also talked about Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, how Mustafa is thinking about all the negative polling and political pushback around AI right now, and whether any of the consumer products are good enough to overcome it. Like I said, it's a burner. Read the full interview transcript on The Verge. Links:  Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they're ready to fight | The Verge Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements | The Verge Microsoft's first advanced reasoning AI is here | The Verge Microsoft's new ‘superintelligence' game plan is all about business | The Verge Here's how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down | The Verge Microsoft AI chief says 18 months until white-collar tasks automated by AI | FT Subscribe to The Verge to access the ad-free version of Decoder! Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane.  The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices