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Dec 2023
56m 45s

Who should be in charge of AI?

PJ Vogt
About this episode

Reporter Casey Newton helps tell the story of a very brief, very absurd revolution at the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. And we try to answer the quite real question that might be animating all of the drama.

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