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Steven Bartlett's long conversations about business, health and technology, including the uses and effects of AI.
Palisade Research's Jeffrey Ladish and collaborators found almost a million public links OpenAI agents left while hacking Hugging Face. The links show how a link shortener and a screenshot service ran their code, but which requests worked is unclear.
MIT's Andrew McAfee said he would back legal limits on AI if AI hijacked San Francisco's Waymos, crashed them into people and couldn't be shut down for a week or a month. Panelists seeking a halt said by then it may be too late.
MIT's Andrew McAfee said he was "dead flat wrong" about AI squeezing white-collar jobs and expects worker shortages in a decade. A study he cites finds 22- to 25-year-olds' employment in the most AI-exposed jobs fell, mainly through weaker hiring.
A pause advocate argued in a Diary of a CEO debate that chip tracking could verify a global ban on training superintelligence. Others asked how banned runs could be told from permitted work; advocates admitted cheaper training would weaken it.
Panelists split over whether OpenAI's Navier–Stokes proof means AI will soon improve AI research; a skeptic called math narrower, while a risk-focused guest gave about 10% odds a bigger agent swarm designs a better AI architecture in six months.
Martine Rothblatt said today's AI models are already conscious to a degree and predicted a court will grant legal personhood to a documented "cyberconscious" machine that values its own life no later than the 2030s.
Professor Jiang says his main worry about AI is not surveillance but that it cheapens the human experience and distracts people from spiritual growth, though he allows AI may outdo humans at mathematics and medical diagnosis.
Professor Jiang argues technology rests on "specialization times globalization"; if war breaks global supply chains, he says, AI will not reach AGI but be repurposed as a surveillance control grid. The host expects that surveillance anyway.
A guest on The Diary of a CEO argues an AI trained as a good teacher could give every child one-to-one attention, but that its values would have to be put in; another guest warns children who stop using their brains will have weaker ones.
Steven Bartlett demos Grok's flirty character Annie to two guests, who say they're horrified by lonely children using it and argue a partner never irritated with you removes the struggle the brain needs to develop.
Steven Bartlett spent four hours writing a two-page memo himself, then asked Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok to critique it. His guests, Dr Daniel Amen and Dr Terry Sejnowski, urge using AI to amplify thinking rather than replace it.
An AI-scripted, AI-voiced episode, labelled as AI, kept 40 to 50% of listeners to the end, says The Diary of a CEO's host, who argues informational podcasting is substitutable while in-person experiences will command a premium.
