Krystal Ball

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41,674 appearances 222 recordings 6 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Sep

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 9/14/26: Anthropic Calls To Slow Pace of AI, Nate Soares AI Regulation · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

And we are at all of their mercy. voice-verified

And so, you know, I mean, I think if you just look, I'm not gonna make any grand statements about democracy versus autography. voice-verified

Democracy authoritarian systems, because I think what we have is uh very loosely a democracy at this point. voice-verified

It's really like money that rules. voice-verified

Uh, but I think if you look at the US right now and you look at China, you can see which country has been far more responsible in terms of technological development. voice-verified

think there's any question about it. voice-verified

So the idea that, oh, it will be fine and good and totally safe if it's the US that wins the AI race. voice-verified

Feels, I think, to many people, myself included, to be completely preposterous. voice-verified

Like the reality is that this is a global technology. voice-verified

We do have to find a way to have agreements specifically with China right now, but they may not be ultimately the only country that ends up at the forefront of this technological development. voice-verified

You are going to have to have some sort of a global standard and tracking. voice-verified

And that is going to be very difficult, but it has been done in the past, and that has to be what is ultimately pushed for. voice-verified

This zero sum mindset, Cold War mindset that China is rightly calling out is ultimately, I think, very, very destructive. voice-verified

And based on a um, you know, based on unreality in terms of the actual dynamics of the US and the actual dynamics of what China wants and what they are pursuing right now. voice-verified

For more on what is going on right now in AI world, we are rejoined by Nate Sores. voice-verified

He is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and also co author of the great book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. voice-verified

Great to see you again, Nate. voice-verified

Yeah, so um let me go ahead and get your reaction to some of what Daru Amade was saying on the Sunday shows about why he came forward now, calling for a slowdown in the pacing of frontier research. voice-verified

Let's take a listen to that. voice-verified

So Nate, help people understand what he's saying there and what he claims to be reacting to in this moment. voice-verified

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