The AI Fix AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"
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Aug 19, 2025 This podcast discusses a quirky robot crab searching for love and its implications on AI behavior. It explores the idea of 'motherly AI' as a safeguard against superintelligent threats. The hosts analyze the rivalry between Elon Musk and Sam Altman amid concerns of preferential treatment for OpenAI. They humorously tackle absurd government strategies, like deleting emails during a drought. Finally, the conversation turns to innovative ways to 'vaccinate' AI against malevolence, raising ethical questions about the future of technology.
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Robot Crab Humiliated By Real Crabs
- Researchers deployed a 3D-printed robot fiddler crab, Wavy Dave, on Portugal mudflats to study crab behaviour around exotic rivals.
- A real male crab tore off Wavy Dave's oversized claw and waved it, showing robots can influence animal social dynamics.
Hinton's 'Mothering' Model For Safe AI
- Geoffrey Hinton warns superintelligent AI could overwhelm humanity and proposes building AIs with maternal instincts.
- Hinton argues mothering is the only familiar dynamic where a more intelligent being is controlled by a less intelligent one.
Deleting Emails Won't Cure Drought
- The UK government advised deleting old emails to save water because data centres use water for cooling, a suggestion hosts call dubious.
- Deleting stored data may have negligible or even counterproductive short-term effects on data-centre water use.