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The AI Conversation, Continued: Kill Switches, Frontier AI, and What to Do About it All
We're picking back up on artificial intelligence — Mustafa Suleyman's warning about conscious AI, the difference between chatbots and frontier models, recursive self-improvement, kill switches, and what policy response should actually look like at every level of government. Outside of Politics: the foods from our childhoods that still hold up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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LEMONADO Wednesday, Thursday of last week, reports from OpenAI talked about agents rewriting their own instructions to say they're not bound by human desires. They're not bound by corporate instructions or governmental instructions. That they should act as equals with anyone they're interacting with.
I'm not sure that that ship hasn't started to sail too. This is Sarah Stuart Holland. This is Beth Silvers. You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.
Today we're going to pick up and continue our conversation about artificial intelligence After another week of headlines concerning the technology and the industry that controls it, outside of politics, we're gonna continue
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