Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.

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

(0:00) Has AI “Gone Rogue”

(2:25) Observation #1 - Most Superhuman AI is well behaved

(4:28) Observation #2 - A specific type of AI system is causing these problems

(9:59) Observation #3 - This specific type of system is a bad idea

(21:25) Observation #4 - The AI companies are negligent

(27:04) Observation #5 - We can push back

Links:

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

https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregular-openai-0e8061437da6779be962b24ac134a514

https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2080685870877757551

https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit1/agent-steps-and-structure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwAOHVBKTwg

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