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Kara Santamaria

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
321 total appearances

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Yeah, well, the Trump administration just fully revoked it, so that's fun.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And we do see that a lot of individual AI companies are putting out policy statements, are trying to

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

introduce their own safety checks but of course that's self-regulation and we know that that's not going to ultimately be the standard that we need anthropic has activated its highest safety tier when it released its most advanced model in 2025 open ai updated its preparedness framework so we do see that people are you know working on this and they are concerned about this

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But, for example, we have a biological weapons convention, an international treaty that prohibits the production and use of bioweapons.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Well, it was agreed upon and published in 1975.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

The word AI is nowhere in it.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And so we have to be really careful about the fact that some governing rules, they don't account for the speed at which this can happen, and they absolutely don't address it specifically in their language.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So, yeah, cheaper, more accessible, more naive users can potentially cause a lot more harm a lot more quickly.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And our regulation and our policy is just not keeping up.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

That's amazing.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Well, then let's dive in.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So is that just like kind of like writing code based on like how you feel about it?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Oh, so it's like, I don't have to be a coder.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I can just go, hey, hey.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

You can use English.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But let's be honest, that's freaking amazing.