John Lovett

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315 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 4d ago

John Lovett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pod Save America · Artificial Intelligence, Actual Idiots · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

One about the ways in which the technology is dangerous and then one about why we need to beat China. voice-verified

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And I think like especially on social media where a lot of these debates are playing out, even among some of the players, there's this way in which the oh, but we have to be China has almost become a joke. voice-verified

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It's like, oh, of course, we need to make a technology that could kill all life on Earth. voice-verified

Otherwise, China will get there first. voice-verified

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And I just appreciated the way it was trying to reconcile those two things and say that there is a lead that U.S. voice-verified

companies have. voice-verified

It is actually important to maintain that lead. voice-verified

Here is a strategy in which we can slow the pace of progress on these frontier models in ways that address or at least alleviate some safety concerns while still recognizing the risk China poses and figuring out a plan to maintain our lead against China. voice-verified

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I mean, we've already been through the first round of this, right? voice-verified

That they have AI models that are deceptive, escaped, hacked other systems, tried to cover their tracks, right? voice-verified

Like, they are doing things that... voice-verified

They are surprising the people that made them and released them. voice-verified

That is already happening, and they're only getting more powerful. voice-verified

And I do think there's a – whether it is the fact that the AI is responsible for training the next AI – voice-verified

is combines I think two ways in which this creates like sort of novel problems. voice-verified

Obviously there's the one you talked about, right? voice-verified

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