#233: OpenAI Pauses Some AI Training, Anthropic Controversy, New State Opposition to Data Centers & AI Job Loss Among Young Workers

**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
We have these very, very powerful models that the labs are having a hard time controlling, and that even once they control them, we haven't removed the traits and behaviors, like we've just suppressed them, and those behaviors can show back up. Welcome to The Artificial Intelligence Show, the podcast that helps your business grow smarter by making AI approachable and actionable. My name is Paul Roetzer. I'm the Founder and CEO of SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute, and I'm your host. Each week, I'm joined by my co-host and SmarterX Chief Content Officer, Mike Kaput. As we break down all the AI news that matters and give you insights and perspectives that you can use to advance your company and your career. Join us as we accelerate AI literacy for all.
Welcome to Episode 233 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are recording Monday, August 24th, about 9:30 a.m. Eastern time.
I don't know if we're getting new models or not this week, Mike. We've got a stealthy, what's the thing called? Ox alpha?

**Mike Kaput** (1:15)
Yeah, I believe so.

**Paul Roetzer** (1:17)
Yeah. So if you're an X user and you follow similar people that Mike and I do, your feed was two things over the last 72 hours. The Robot Olympics in China and the Ox model that was getting all kinds of coverage and theories of whose model it is.
And we're going to talk about that. So Mike's going to cover those. Maybe we find out who the secret owner of the Ox model is this week. I don't know. Leading theory seems to be either a China lab or Google. I don't know. Well, I don't know if there's like odds markets for this. I don't know if the Polly market has like who owns stealth models or not.

**Mike Kaput** (1:56)
That wouldn't surprise me.

**Paul Roetzer** (1:58)
Yeah, they should if they don't. All right. So this week's episode is brought to you by Maicon, the AI Conference for Marketing and Business Leaders. That is happening October 13 to 15 in Cleveland. This is our seventh annual Maicon event. If you've been thinking about joining us at Maicon this year, we have a special offer exclusively for podcast listeners.
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All right. Every week we do an AI Pulse Survey. These are informal polls that kind of get the sentiment of our listeners for a topic we've covered on the podcast. We're trying something new. We're actually starting to promote these polls outside of just our podcast audience in order to get a broader range of responses. And so we left this question open for two weeks, I think, Mike.

**Mike Kaput** (4:01)
Yeah.

**Paul Roetzer** (4:03)
And started promoting it again through some limited channels. We're going to start doing some more stuff to put it out there. But we'd love to get three to 500 responses a week. So these are actually like much more projectable polls and data. But we had over 200 responses to the question, where is your organization at when it comes to deploying AI agents? And this is probably what I would think. And again, keep in mind, we're asking a group of people who listen to an artificial intelligence podcast every week. So you would think that the people in this audience are going to be a little bit more AI forward than others. And the answer to the question again, where is your organization at when it comes to deploying AI agents? 18% say aggressively deploying across workflows. 49% selectively piloting in a few areas.