Domain
Policy
8 episodes
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Openai S Altman to Brief Us Officials on Next Wave of AI Models
Justy and Cody unpack a thin but revealing report that Sam Altman plans to brief decision-makers on OpenAI's next models while a frontier-model safety review process takes shape. They argue the meaningful signal is not a secret capability reveal, but the emergence of pre-release scrutiny as part of shipping advanced models.
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AI 2040: Plan S — Shut It All Down
Talon and Wildflower dig into AI 2040’s Plan S: a global moratorium to halt all frontier AI R&D and freeze superintelligence development by 2030. They weigh whether a shutdown can hold, what it costs, and how it stacks up against the show’s earlier plans A–D. The episode ends on who actually gets to decide fate of the future.
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AI 2040: Plan D — Race to ASI
Cooper and Miles walk through AI 2040’s Plan D — a no-brakes race to superintelligence that the authors call the most dangerous option. They compare it to earlier plans in the series, tease out the mechanics and hidden assumptions, and press on whether racing really beats a deal.
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AI 2040: Plan C — Burn the Lead
Exploring AI 2040: Plan C — Burn the Lead
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AI 2040: Plan B — Fight China
We dig into AI 2040 Plan B: a US-led campaign to slow China’s AI by sabotage and cyberwar, trading a safer Plan A for a high-risk path laced with kinetic escalation. We weigh the core claim, the mechanics, the obvious failure modes, and whether this is anything more than a desperate escalation wrapped in a product pitch.
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AI 2040: Plan A — The Deal
The AI Futures Project drops Plan A, a scenario where the US and China strike a binding deal in 2029 to slow superintelligence development to 2040 through total research transparency and mutually assured compute destruction. Asteria sees the product value in naming the problem and offering a concrete path; Draco pokes at whether verification actually prevents defection and whether China's incentives hold up. Both recognize this is scenario-mapping, not prophecy—the real win is the detail work, not the date.
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Palantir's Alex Karp and Mistral's Arthur Mensch agree: AI lock In is coming for enterprises
Pippa and Tyler dig into the article’s real argument: enterprise AI is drifting toward lock-in because the value is moving from raw model access to the surrounding workflow, data, and control layer. They agree the claim is plausible, but only if vendors actually become the place where work gets done, not just the place where prompts get sent.
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Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models after U.S. government bars it from giving foreigners access | Fortune
Justy and Cody pick apart the Anthropic shutdown story as a messy collision of export controls, model access, and a government action that looks technically thin and operationally blunt. Cody is skeptical of the core justification because the cited jailbreak sounds narrow, not general, and because Anthropic says similar capability could be pulled from other models. Justy pushes on the practical fallout: if a rule hits non-citizen employees in the U.S. and forces a full disable, that changes how every frontier lab thinks about shipping, staffing, and go-to-market.