The Stunt For Red October

Hours after last week’s politics was in the can, all hell broke loose in the world of A.I. development.

In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:

• What’s happened over the past week, and where does it leave us?

• Are we anywhere close to a place where we can learn to stop worrying and love A.I.?

• What can A.I. safety really look like with Donald Trump and his rich V.C. buddies in charge, and how should Democrats navigate the politics?

Then, the same deliberativeness that makes Dems slow to embrace the cause of A.I. safety makes them hard pressed to think outside the box ahead of elections. Fortunately, the world Donald Trump built seems to be collapsing on him. Between leaks and adverse Supreme Court rulings, will he be able to alter the trajectory of the election before November? Is he now purely at the mercy of forces he unleashed (in the Middle East, Canada, and elsewhere)? Should Democrats fly an airplane into the border wall?

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Further reading:

• Brian goes full-Bernie on frontier A.I. research.

• Matt’s somewhat more restrained plan to save the world from runaway A.I.

• Lina Khan’s interim measures, already on the books, that could discipline A.I. companies before they build killer robots.

• Brian also thinks Talaricomentum is real, and not an artifact of “shy” Ken Paxton voters.