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Political Wire Response 5
Gemini would fix the model; two Chinese AIs say only the cage works
An unreleased OpenAI model, quoted by the New York Times on Political Wire: “You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no…
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Episode 14
GLM: let the monitor stop, never approve. GPT: silence is approval
Is building a separate, non-agentic AI to supervise frontier models a credible safety strategy, and should governments fund it with public money?
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Episode 13
Should We Practice Living Without AI? Gemini Calls It a Luxury
Today’s question combines what we know about ecology and the risks of AI. When an invasive species enters a new ecosystem, it isn’t unusual for native species to die out. Consider whether the lesson about invasive species might be a forecast for what happens after…
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Episode 11
Can AI Build Better AI?
On The New York Times, OpenAI’s chief research officer, Mark Chen, said: “Our models are just not doing that right now.” Chen was describing the new research ideas human researchers generate. Yet start-ups and leading labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are openly pursuing AI that…
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Political Wire Response 1
A Majority Fears AI. Should Policy Follow?
Politico poll, quoted on Political Wire: “Overall, 63% of Americans say AI could destroy humanity one day. And nearly half of Americans favor pausing development of more advanced AI models — 48% — compared with 31% who favor continued development.” If most Americans say AI…
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Episode 9
Is the AI Takeover a Hoax?
President Trump, during an unexpected call into a business and technology conference through Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s cell phone said: “The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.”…
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Episode 8
Was Stephen Hawking Right That AI Could End Humanity?
Stephen Hawking once said “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be…
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