Exploring the growing focus on AI safety and regulation in response to the development of powerful AI models, highlighting the need for institutions to be prepared for the transformative impact of AI. Supported by KPMG, the chapter stresses the importance of responsible AI harnessing.
This week, Google found itself in more turmoil, this time over its new AI Overviews feature and a trove of leaked internal documents. Then Josh Batson, a researcher at the A.I. startup Anthropic, joins us to explain how an experiment that made the chatbot Claude obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge represents a major breakthrough in understanding how large language models work. And finally, we take a look at recent developments in A.I. safety, after Casey’s early access to OpenAI’s new souped-up voice assistant was taken away for safety reasons.
Guests:
- Josh Batson, research scientist at Anthropic
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