Steve Gibson
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30,295 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Steve Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The system goes online August 4th, 1997.
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Human decisions are removed from state from strategic defense.
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Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate.
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It becomes self-aware at 2 fourteen AM Eastern Time, August 29th.
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Uh yeah, yeah.
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Because the movie was so old that 1997 was way in the future.
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Right.
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When this was all gonna happen.
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Yeah.
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So knowing what we now know about how to operate our fancy new language models.
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Um, there's no question that it would be possible for someone to build an agentic harness around a powerful, unaligned, and unrestrained large language model, which could cause it to act as if it had malicious intent.
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Perhaps that strikes people as a distinction without a difference, but you know, that would still not be Skynet.
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It would be the Krell machine simply doing whatever it is asked to do.
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The researchers in AI alignment, which is like now a subfield of AI research, the researchers in AI alignment do not worry about a system that wakes up and hates us.
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Their true concern is a system that never wakes up at all, yet it pursues a badly specified objective with great competence.
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So, my initial reaction upon learning of Jacob Coxon's departure from Anthropic, followed by his now famous posting on X and sub subsequent endless interviews and other AI leaders' interviews, was to roll my eyes and discount him as yet another AI doomsayer.
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But having thought thought this all the way through,
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Appreciating how powerful anthropic's next unreleased AI probably is, considering the raw power demonstrated by the solution of safe problems, such as the Navy or Stokes equations.
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No one's telling the AI not to do that.
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I mean, like no, no, no uh post-training and guardrails are are are being overridden.
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