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In this week's episode:

We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time
Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability
OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycophantic
Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong?

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****

ONE MILLION CHESS BOARDS:

ANTHROPIC'S MODEL WELFARE RESEARCH:

THE PERSONALITY CRISIS OF CHATGPT:

OpenAI rolls back sycophantic ChatGPT update: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-a-sycophantic-mess/
Sam Altman's tweet about the issue: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1917291637962858735
Stanford HAI research on LLM personality: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/large-language-models-just-want-to-be-liked

META'S CHATBOT SEX PROBLEM:

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