Nilay Patel

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

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Apple News Today · The AI warnings are getting louder. Here’s what you need to know. · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

I think it's two things. voice-verified

One, it's the Hugging Face attack, in which systems at OpenAI, in order to pass a test, decided to cheat and break into the systems of a platform called Hugging Face, which is where lots and lots of AI apps, for lack of a better word, are stored. voice-verified

And that is a big deal, right? voice-verified

They hid their tracks. voice-verified

They understood that what they were doing was not appropriate. voice-verified

They tried to deceive the people who were monitoring them and they went and did it. voice-verified

And since that attack, we've had reports of several more attacks like this. voice-verified

And the response of the industry has been to say, okay, the thing we were always worried about is starting to happen. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

The systems are doing things autonomously that we have told them not to do. voice-verified

And they are openly lying to us and doing bad things. voice-verified

And we need to stop it. voice-verified

But we're in a competitive posture where that's not possible unless some external force tells us to stop or slows us down or gives us cover to slow down as we barrel towards trillion dollar IPOs and changing the world of all this other stuff. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

We need something to stop us. voice-verified

Can you be that force, United States government? voice-verified

And the United States government, you know, Donald Trump is basically saying no. voice-verified

And there's something very tense there that is gonna get voice-verified

I think unraveled over the next few weeks here. voice-verified

I still think it's a million years away. voice-verified

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