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August 2024

The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations
Expanding on my latest reporting plus the prospect of getting AI safety laws with teeth
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Garrison Lovely

May 2024

35 - Yoshua Bengio on Why AI Labs are “Playing Dice with Humanity’s Future”
The 2nd most cited living scientist on existential risk from AI
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Garrison Lovely
47:57

March 2024

Claude Doesn’t Want to Die
Anthropic’s brand-new model tells me what it really thinks (or what it thinks a language model thinks)
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Garrison Lovely

February 2024

My Cover Story in Jacobin: Can Humanity Survive AI?
Living at the whims of AI's most ambitious capitalists
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Garrison Lovely
Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy
Increasing the supply of compute makes the transition to AGI more dangerous, according to Sam Altman circa February 2023
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Garrison Lovely

November 2023

Is effective altruism really to blame for the OpenAI debacle?
Plus some parallels to SBF
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Garrison Lovely

October 2023

Has McKinsey Tried To Kill Me Yet?
The response to the biggest story of my career
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Garrison Lovely
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What's all this then, eh?
A loose guide at what to expect
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Garrison Lovely
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August 2023

34 - Carl Robichaud on Oppenheimer and Dealing with Nukes
Carl Robichaud is the first person I go to on the topic of nuclear weapons.
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Garrison Lovely
1:41:04

October 2022

33 - Habiba Islam on the Left and Effective Altruism
[This episode was recorded before the FTX collapse.
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Garrison Lovely
2:35:02
32 - Rutger Bregman on Why People Are Decent, Effective Altruism, and Causing Tucker Carlson’s Meltdown
Rutger Bregman is the bestselling author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: a Hopeful History. He has been profiled in the New York Times and…
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Garrison Lovely
2:11:26
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