Elaine Burke
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2,772 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Elaine Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mm-hmm.
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But we see this quite often where people just are really eager to ascribe this humanity to these systems.
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hits.
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I don't wanna get full on armchair psychology with this guy, but there's clearly like a savior complex there.
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It's like I can feel like I created a being and I am God and then I also have the power to save them like
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Just
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This idea, like this referring to it as like a being and stuff like that, you see that creeping all over the shop.
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It's just okay, calm down.
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Hugely self involved and yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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So one thing I did want you to to read about before we came on today, and I don't know if you came across it at the time, was this story from May this year about an experiment from a company called Emergence AI.
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What did you pick up from that story?
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Yeah, I think the the they ran the simulation for fifteen days and I think the Grok simulation everyone was dead within two or something like that.
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Yeah.
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Well, the dog analogy is actually good because you can also train dogs and they are very responsive to training and
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Sometimes, say if your training is taken too literally or something like that, that can cause problems.
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Yeah, like they say for they say locked and stay and they like starve themselves all day because they've just like gotta behave, gotta be good.
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But there's even examples.
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So there's this thing called reward hacking is how they call it in the industry.
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So essentially like the systems are trained through reinforcement.
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