Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

(0:00) Does OpenAI create “secret AI civilizations”?

(1:59) What’s the deal with “agent swarms”?

(8:54) Should we be worried that the agents are plotting?

(17:39) How should we be thinking about all of this?

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow 

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface

https://calnewport.com/has-ai-gone-rogue/

https://calnewport.com/are-we-at-war-with-ai-agent-civilizations/

Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter.

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