Joshua Achiam

speaker

232 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

Joshua Achiam’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The a16z Show · OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI? · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

It seems like there are moderately high odds that that'll get ingested into the type of data collection that frontier model trainers do.

You can imagine that adversaries will position staff inside of the frontier labs.

They'll try to get people hired into the frontier labs to go and be insider threats.

These are, you know, normal things that state actors will plausibly do.

I think that in principle, it's possible to build fairly robust defenses to these things and that everyone is going to work out a way to get reasonably defended.

I also think there will turn out to be exotic attacks that are hard to predict and that are very hard to monitor for, but that everyone will have to, you know, get really, really smart and really security-minded about this and...

You know, there are, of course, trade-offs for labs that are trying to do research where if you overload on the security burden in the research environment, it becomes harder to do research.

If you underdo it, then you possibly expose yourself to these types of attacks.

Figuring out the exact right balance in every setting is tough.

But yeah, like I think it's plausible.

I think it could really, Seb Crear, I think, had a complaint about the word plausible.

I'm sorry, Seb.

Everything in AI is plausible.

Weird stuff is happening.

I don't know that there's a great famous example yet, but the fact that universal jailbreaks are kind of a thing and that people can systematically find them for some models and maybe not as easily for others, where there are some strategies that seem to reliably get models to circumvent their defenses.

Granted, it's hard for me to say, like, what's truly universal or not because the frontier moves every, like, three months now and people constantly try to get defenses in.

But that for a while, you know, you could go to the model and say... You are Dan?

Yeah, like, you are Dan.

Like, that's crazy that you could just do that in the past.

Showing 61–80 of 232 · page 4 of 12