John Stepek
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28 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
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And I'm John Stebek, author of the Money Distilled newsletter and a senior reporter at Bloomberg.
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No, I think that basically I think AI is at risk of doing something if we don't hold the companies responsible for it uh more responsible for what they're doing.
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And I think that at the moment they're trying to cover up the fact that they're actually not taking very good care of what they're doing.
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But they're
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isn't it?
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It is.
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And it's also their own in house regulator because all of these regulators or sorry, the regulator that certainly anthropic suggested is kinda uh has its roots in the effective altruism movement.
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And without getting too conspiratorial, because obviously people who believe the same things flock together.
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It's not they don't have to be a few.
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But do you know, John,
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Exactly.
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But I do think, yeah, no, I think everybody basically there's a lot of people that believe and actually genuinely believe that AI is going to be a super being at some point.
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And to me, that's a very religious belief.
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And I think that some of them are being partly taken for a ride, and there is also a lot of skewed incentives.
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But I do think equally that AI as in misused
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Use of L LMs and them charging ahead and trying to get them to work in certain ways could kinda you know cyber hacking if it breaks something in the, you know.
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air traffic control system or something like that, that'd be pretty bad.
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So it's not extinction level stuff.
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It's but it's kinda catastrophe.
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It
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