AI Has Become Profoundly WEIRD, But Is Anyone Noticing? With Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse

Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse is an AI safety writer and researcher who went down the AI doom rabbit hole in 2023 and never came back up. After a year as digital communications officer at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), she’s gone independent to speak her mind unfiltered.

Read Sarah’s Substack: https://longerramblings.substack.com

Join PauseAI UK’s March Against AI Extinction in London on November 21: https://luma.com/pauseai-nov26

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDbHCKwuMrk

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Cold Open

00:00:41 — Introducing Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse

00:02:06 — How a Humanities Grad Got AGI-Pilled

00:08:40 — Whose Timelines Do You Trust?

00:11:32 — Joining the UK AI Security Institute

00:15:47 — What AISI Actually Does

00:19:23 — Verifying Anthropic’s Mythos Claims