Episode 312: Who Gets To Control AI When Everyone Is Afraid

The people building the most powerful AI models are now publicly warning that AI could get out of control, and that alone should make all of us lean in. We walk through what’s behind the sudden unity from major players like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk, including the language you keep hearing but rarely see explained clearly: AI misalignment, agent swarms, and recursive self-improvement. If AI systems can take actions their creators didn’t explicitly instruct, what does “safe enough” even...