John Lovett

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

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

Forever chemicals or the harms of social media or x-rays or what have you. voice-verified

Time and again, when we assume something is safe, even though it is very powerful, we come to regret the decision to not take it more seriously. voice-verified

And fundamentally, I do think these guys are all trying to have it both ways. voice-verified

Is it a powerful technology? voice-verified

If it is, then it's dangerous. voice-verified

If it's not dangerous, then it's not powerful. voice-verified

We all agree that it is powerful and therefore it is dangerous. voice-verified

And so, yeah, like long-term, any rules would have to be written with an understanding that this is like a dynamic and rapidly evolving field, that there would be certain, you know, first mover advantages. voice-verified

If there's a lot of rules around alignment, that would be easier for bigger companies to comply with. voice-verified

But it's also beside the point because voice-verified

okay, fine, like take those things into advisement over the long term, the long term being anything other than the next few weeks. voice-verified

Right now, these companies are all saying, hey, this threshold that we've been warning about, that is not new, right? voice-verified

That we've been warning about from the beginning, right? voice-verified

That from the letters from 2023, from science fiction, from all of these people that have been saying for years, we think it's here. voice-verified

We think we're on the threshold of this moment. voice-verified

We have to take some steps now. voice-verified

Now they turn around and say like, maybe it's Saks or one of the other guys, turns around and say, well, if you don't want to make super intelligence, just don't make super voice-verified

And and fine like oh, okay But there's not one company doing this right if it like the fact that there is there are two leaders right open AI and entropic right with others like Gemini kind of right behind other companies and open whatever other companies behind them the fact that there is more than one is enough to make sense of the plea to have some sort of cooperation and agreement And to dismiss that as like purely cynical and motivation. voice-verified

I just think is it's completely unjustified. voice-verified

lot of people. voice-verified

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