Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

Jacob Coxen, a researcher who spent three years on pre-training, both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned this week. Neither company is acting responsibly in the race towards self-improving superintelligence. He's called the competition gambling with our lives.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:13)

Rage quit, couched as virtue signaling, don't give it much credibility. That said, 100 plus billion views on this, the whole story smells wrong.

Peter Diamandis (0:22)

Now, Sam is using this extraordinary achievement with Neville Stokes as an argument for slowing down once again. I did not expect a result of this magnitude to happen so soon. We've been talking a lot about the need to pace progress to ensure safety. For me, this is the strongest evidence yet for that urgency.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:42)

We're so deep in the singularity at this point.

Emad Mostaque (0:44)

I can't think of a single solvable, verifiable thing that I can honestly say an AI console in the next year, shall we say.

Peter Diamandis (0:53)

Those challenges are being yanked away from humanity and being slain by the compute we aim at them.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (1:01)

The natural question is what becomes the limiting factor. Increasingly, the bottleneck becomes.

Dave Blundin (1:08)

Now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. This episode is brought to you by the Abundance Summit and Link Ventures.

Peter Diamandis (1:19)

Welcome to Moonshots, everyone. Your number one podcast on all things AI and exponential. Your front row seat to the extraordinary singularity that is happening right now.

Two days ago, we sat here and said AGI has arrived. And OpenAI may have just solved the Millennium Prize problem with 10,000 agents. So, you know, a normal Thursday. Let me introduce our Fabulous Five Moonshot mates. The Quintet is here, here to help you make sense of the past 72 hours because once again, it has been a doozy. AWG, Alex Wissner-Gross, our in-house ASI, and the only person on this panel who can actually tell you what the Navier-Stokes equation actually is.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (2:00)

Well, actually, Black Hole's in everyone's coffee going.

Peter Diamandis (2:03)

Oh, my God.

Dave Blundin (2:05)

I told that story 20 times since you told it on the last pod. Everybody's like, what are you talking about? So, they're all going to do well to see you now, because it's like, it's just cool.

Peter Diamandis (2:13)

Emad Mostaque, our general giant from across the pond, the CEO of Intelligent Internet, Dave Blundin, the impresario of AI Investing, who's been saying for some time that GPUs are fungible, durable, revenue-generating assets.

And by the way, Dave has some big news he'll be sharing with us in just a moment. And of course, Salim Ismail, father of the Organizational Singularity, back from wherever Customs has been holding him. Salim, good to see you, pal.

Salim Ismail (2:40)

Good morning, everyone.

Peter Diamandis (2:42)

I'm Peter Diamandis, your moderator and your abundance provocateur. Our mission here on Moonshots, as always, to help you understand what just happened, because so much is happening at a hypersonic speed, what it means for you, and to do our best to keep you abundance-minded about the decade ahead. If you haven't hit subscribe yet, please do. We're putting out two episodes a week. You don't want to miss any one of these during the Singularity.

Our Moonshot on this Moonshots podcast is 100x growth. Our mission is to help people stay optimistic, understand what's going on. Our goal is to reach 10 million subscribers. You can just call it right there. So if you're able to help us, tell people about the podcast. If you haven't subscribed, please do. End of the day, our mission is to spread the news of what's going on and what it means. Today, we've got 18 stories across five different groupings. And the through line, the machines are starting to solve science. And AI alignment is currently humanity's biggest concern. Today, we'll cover OpenAI's internal alignment struggles, Sam Altman's effort to hunt for a room-temperature superconductor, the first AI-designed longevity drug. You heard that right, an AI-designed longevity drug that is reversing aging clocks and Google's project to map every possible mutation in the human genome.

Meanwhile, humans back here on Earth are arguing about whether to slow down. So buckle up, grab your coffee, a lot to cover, and it's critical for everyone to listen. So let's jump in. But before we do, Dave, my dear fraternity brother, my venture partner, you have some big use today.

Dave Blundin (4:28)

Yeah, I'm extra punchy from lack of sleep. It's awesome. We announced yesterday that Vesmark is getting acquired by Investnet, backed by Bain Capital. Vesmark is a company I founded in 2001, right after 9-11 actually, and was CEO of for the first six years.