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#245: OpenAI DevDay and Dots, OpenAI’s Safety Crisis, Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence & Anthropic Targets Pre-Thanksgiving IPO Ad:

The Artificial Intelligence Show

October 6, 2026

An OpenAI safety researcher resigned and published an essay arguing the company's safety culture can't keep up with its own release pace; the same week OpenAI fired three safety researchers and canceled a model release over internal test results.

Speakers Paul Roetzer, Mike Kaput

TopicsMarketingBusinessTechnology

Paul Roetzer (0:00)

And they'll be like, how did my AI know to recommend that to me? How did it know I hadn't done this with my diet? And it's just going to be like the shock and awe moment where they think this thing is like sentient. And in reality, it's just a predictive model that has access to all your data. But they're not going to know that. They're never going to know that. And most people I talk to still have no idea how the ads work on Facebook.

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 245 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We're recording Monday, October 5th at 9 AM Eastern Time.

Quick scheduling note, there will not be a weekly episode on October 13th, so next week, because it is Maicon week. So Mike and I this week are scrambling to create all of our presentations and all the different sessions we're involved in. Mike, I know you've got a couple of interviews, I think. I've got an interview with Karen Howe. We've got AI for CMOs Summit that I'm doing the opening talk for. We've got our Marketing AI Industry Council that, actually you and I need to figure out who's creating the presentation for that. I've got my opening keynote. I had the conversation with Karen. I'm hosting the thing and then I'm also running an AI Co-Executive Workshop on the first day. Mike, I know your schedule is very similar probably for Maicon with workshop, presentation, interviews. Needless to say, Mike and I have our week cut out for us getting ready for Maicon, so there won't be an episode next Tuesday, the 13th because the conference will be happening. Now of note though is if you're going to be at Maicon, there is a podcast stage or studio, I guess in the Convention Center. I don't know how exactly we're doing this.

The team tells me stuff like if I need to know, otherwise I just show up and see what we did. Mike and I, along with a bunch of other podcasters, are going to be recording a live session at Maicon. If you are going to be at Maicon in Cleveland, October 13th to the 15th, we will check the agenda. I don't know what time it is or even what day we're doing it, but Mike and I will actually be doing a live recording of The Artificial Intelligence Show during Maicon, and then that episode is going to drop sometime next week. I would guess next Thursday. I don't know. Again, I'm only on a need-to-know basis at the moment because I got everything else going on. So again, no weekly October 13th, but there will be a special edition dropped next week where Mike and I have recorded live from Maicon. Did I cover that right, Mike? Did I say all the right things there?

Mike Kaput (3:12)

That's it.

Paul Roetzer (3:13)

Okay. General gist of it. All right. So yeah. And this episode is brought to us by Maicon. So this is your last chance to get there. We would love to see you in Cleveland October 13th to 15th. As of right now, it's early, but the weather looks amazing. Like we are having the absolute prototypical fall weather right now in Cleveland. And so the 10-day outlook is looking like 70s in Cleveland next week. So we would love to see you there.

It's bringing together an amazing group of speakers, an incredible lineup over the three days, including the first day with the optional workshops, opening night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and just tons of amazing networking with other AI forward marketers and business leaders. And then anybody who uses pod 100 when they register at maicon.ai, that's maicon.ai, is going to get invited to the private lunch with me and Mike. We're just going to, it's just an ask us anything while you're enjoying some amazing food. So, yeah, last chance, get in, maicon.ai. Use pod 100 to not only get $100 off, but get that invite to the private lunch, courtesy of The Artificial Intelligence Show.

Okay, so AI Pulse, we always start with this. Mike, what do we got going on? This is the second week we're doing the same question. What's the question we've got?

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