Contrasting Perspectives on AI Risks

Nathan Labenz, host of The Cognitive Revolution, joins me for an AI news & social media roundup!

00:00 Introducing Nate

05:18 What’s Your P(Doom)™

23:22 GPT-4o Image Generation

40:20 Will Fiverr’s Stock Crash?

47:41 AI Unemployment

55:11 Entrepreneurship

01:00:40 OpenAI Valuation

01:09:29 Connor Leahy’s Hair

01:13:28 Mass Extinction

01:25:30 Is anyone feeling the doom vibes?

01:38:20 Rethinking AI Individuality

01:40:35 “Softmax” — Emmett Shear's New AI Safety Org

01:57:04 Anthropic's Mechanistic Interpretability Paper

02:10:11 International Cooperation for AI Safety

02:18:43 Final Thoughts

Show Notes

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