Soft Takeoff and Alignment Challenges

Podcast episode for AI #149: 3.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:25 - Table of Contents

* 02:55 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 04:07 - Claude Code

* 11:46 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 12:53 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 15:53 - Fun With Media Generation

* 16:21 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 19:44 - They Took Our Jobs

* 23:51 - Doctor Doctor

* 24:49 - Jevons Paradox Strikes Again

* 26:59 - Unprompted Attention

* 28:50 - The Art of the Jailbreak

* 29:35 - Get Involved

* 30:15 - Introducing

* 30:36 - In Other AI News

* 32:02 - Show Me the Money

* 32:19 - Quiet Speculations

* 35:56 - People Really Do Not Like AI

* 39:29 - Americans Remain Optimistic About AI?

* 41:22 - Thank You, Next

* 44:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 47:31 - Chip City

* 50:16 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 50:53 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 51:55 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 52:14 - The Lighter Side

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