“The group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.”
Jul 31
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
This week, we break down the arguments about open-weight models unfolding in Silicon Valley right now. Nvidia released an open letter signed by over 230 companies opposing “premature restrictions,” but will the Trump administration listen? Then, we’re joined by the author Claire ... Show More
1h 6m
Jul 17
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT
This week, feuding between some of the biggest tech companies spilled into public view. We discuss Apple’s accusation that OpenAI tried to steal secrets about Apple’s hardware business, as well as share our reactions about OpenAI’s new model, Sol, and Anthropic’s decision to exte ... Show More
1h 9m
Jun 2024
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
<p>Chatted with my friend <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forourposterity.com/">Leopold Aschenbrenner</a> on the trillion dollar nationalized cluster, CCP espionage at AI labs, how unhobblings and scaling can lead to 2027 AGI, dangers of outsourcing clusters to Middle East, ... Show More
4h 31m
Mar 2025
Ep. 345: Are We Getting Dumber?
Multiple listeners recently sent in a Financial Times article that asks whether humans have passed “peak intelligence.” In this episode, Cal looks closer at the data in this article to try to understand why we seem to be getting dumber, and more importantly, what are the practica ... Show More
1h 10m
Aug 2024
Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
<p>Chatted with Joe Carlsmith about whether we can trust power/techno-capital, how to not end up like Stalin in our urge to control the future, gentleness towards the artificial Other, and much more.</p><p>Check out Joe's sequence on Otherness and Control in the Age of AGI <a tar ... Show More
2h 30m
May 2024
The TED AI Show: Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory
Could you spot a deepfake? We’re entering a new world where generative AI is challenging our sense of what’s real and what’s fiction. In our first episode, Bilawal and Sam Gregory, a human rights activist and technologist, discuss how to protect our sense of reality.This is an ep ... Show More
27m 25s
Sep 2025
#434 — Can We Survive AI?
Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares about their new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI. They discuss the alignment problem, ChatGPT and recent advances in AI, the Turing Test, the possibility of AI developing surviv ... Show More
36m 26s
<p>Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind</p><p>We discuss:</p><p>* Why scaling is an artform</p><p>* Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs</p><p>* Making sure rogue nations can't steal weights</p><p>* The right way to align superhum ... Show More