AI Summer
de Timothy B. Lee
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Kevin Roose on how AGI went from pipe dream to roadmap
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Timothy B. Lee interviews leading experts about the future of AI technology and policy.
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- Kevin Roose on how AGI went from pipe dream to roadmap · 46 minI’ve known former New York Times reporter Kevin Roose since 2017, when we rode a bus into the California desert to try out Waymo’s early driverless cars. Now he has a new book…
- Garrison Lovely on the case for banning superintelligence · 56 minI talked to Garrison Lovely, author of the new book Obsolete, about his case that we shouldn’t just slow down AGI. We should stop building it. We started with the fights inside…
- Jasmine Sun on the data center backlash · 56 minNothing about data centers changed much this year — except the country’s mood. To find out why, the independent journalist Jasmine Sun traveled to the sites of proposed and…
- Steven Adler on the AI industry’s rogue agent crisis · 1 h 16 minSteven Adler spent four years inside OpenAI working on safety before leaving to co-found Guidelight, a nonprofit pushing for stronger AI controls. On Tuesday, the group published…
- Josh Saxe on hardening the Internet after the Hugging Face attack · 59 minI invited Joshua Saxe, a former black-hat hacker who led AI security efforts at Meta, to break down last week’s incident in which a swarm of OpenAI models escaped their testing…
- Robert Wright on the global implications of powerful AI · 1 h 7 minRobert Wright, author of the Nonzero newsletter and host of the Nonzero podcast, is a veteran journalist who interviewed Geoffrey Hinton about neural networks back in 1983. He…
- Alan Rozenshtein on Friday's shocking shutdown of Claude Fable 5 · 56 minLast night, I called University of Minnesota law professor Alan Rozenshtein and asked him to help me decode the Commerce Department’s surprise decision to impose export controls…
- James Grimmelmann explains how AI is changing copyright · 54 minI’m organizing a happy hour on June 23 for listeners of AI Summer and readers of my newsletter, Understanding AI. It’ll run from 5:30 to 8:00pm at The Crown & Crow in Washington…
- Andy Masley on the data center backlash · 58 minOver seven years teaching high school physics, Andy Masley learned how to explain abstract quantities like watt-hours in an accessible way. That skill has made him one of the…
- Sophia Tung on the state of autonomous vehicles · 54 minI don’t know anyone who has ridden in more different kinds of robotaxis than Sophia Tung. A YouTuber and the author of the RideAI newsletter, she is one of the most knowledgeable…
- Divyansh Kaushik on the robotics race between China and the US · 1 h 5 minI talk to Divyansh Kaushik, a Carnegie Mellon machine learning PhD turned national-security advisor at Beacon Global Strategies, about the robotics race between the US and China…
- Alex Imas explains why AI (probably) won't put everyone out of work · 1 h 2 minAlex Imas is an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School who argues that the most important thing about an AI-saturated economy won’t be what machines can…
- Sayash Kapoor on Claude Mythos as normal technology · 58 minLast week Anthropic stunned the AI world by announcing Claude Mythos Preview—and then refusing to release it. Princeton’s Sayash Kapoor, co-author of the newsletter AI as Normal…
- Nat Purser explains how progressives are thinking about AI · 1 h 17 min · Episodul 22Tim talks to Nat Purser, a tech policy advocate at Public Knowledge and a veteran of Democratic campaigns, about how policymakers on the left side of the political spectrum view…
- Ryan Avent on self-driving cars and the future of the labor market · 1 h 5 minAuthor Ryan Avent joins Tim to revisit a bet they made 16 years ago—and to ask whether the lessons of self-driving cars apply to modern AI. Back in 2010, Avent wagered that his…
- Joel Becker on METR's famous time horizons chart · 58 minMETR’s time horizons chart has become one of the most discussed metrics in AI. It estimates the difficulty of tasks — measured in human work hours — that a model can complete…
- Pete Hegseth's war on Anthropic (with Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier) · 55 minTim and Dean team up with Scaling Laws hosts Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier for a joint episode on the fight between Anthropic and the Department of Defense. In this episode…
- Dean on the AI Action Summit in India · 51 minDean joins from London after attending the AI Impact Summit in India. Dean and Tim unpack the summit’s central tension: “middle power” nations like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria…
- Kai Williams on the many masks LLMs wear · 47 minWith Dean away, Tim invites his Understanding AI colleague Kai to unpack the surprising ways chatbot personalities can go wrong, a topic Kai covered in a recent article. Every…
- AI safety in India, AV operators in the Philippines · 1 h 3 minDean recorded this episode as he was preparing to attend the India AI Impact Summit — the fourth iteration of an annual gathering that has transformed from an intimate AI Safety…
