#239: Labs Agree to Pace AI, OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, AI Jobs Apocalypse Postponed & Jensen Declares AGI

Paul Roetzer (0:00)

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Welcome to Episode 239 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I am your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. It is September 14th, 9 AM Eastern Time, and stuff's already going off the rails.

I don't even know where to start, Mike.

Things got just progressively, I don't know, like more serious, more widespread as the week went on, and then over the weekend, it just kept going. And so we're going to do our best to unpack what's happening right now.

In essence, like there's a massive focus on safety and alignment. There's a heavily increasing awareness about the risks related to these AI systems as they get more and more advanced. We're going to try and give you the balanced perspective of like there's a bunch of kind of scary stuff and mainstream media is all over this as are the politicians now.

There's some reality to some of this stuff that people need to be thinking about and maybe even worried about to a degree, but there's also a lot of hype and exaggeration and maybe some things that we shouldn't be quite as worried about that the media is going to run with. So I don't know, like we'll see where this goes, Mike.

We're probably going to spend a lot of time on these first one or two topics would be my guess. It looks like you've shortened the rapid fire section in anticipation of spending some time on this. So Mike and I have not talked since probably Thursday or maybe Friday morning. Yeah, I think so, yeah. Yeah. So we have zero prep for this. We're coming in hot. I just finished up this morning getting ready. So yeah, I don't know. We'll see where this one goes.

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