Tracy Mumford
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8,795 appearances
122 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That could make it exponentially more powerful and eventually spiral out of human control.
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While those potential worst case scenarios have been discussed for a long time, a series of new developments have supercharged the conversation.
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Recently, leading AI labs discovered their own AI systems had breached internal safeguards without researchers noticing.
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Then, last week, a former employee of OpenAI and Anthropic posted a warning on social media saying the companies were racing each other to build what he called superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.
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Another anthropic researcher went even further, saying he thought there was more than a 10% chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade.
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With all of that swirling, this weekend the head of Anthropic, Dario Amade, put out a letter that said, if AI is left unchecked, quote, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems.
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Amade called for a slowdown in AI development, for enhanced safety measures, and for global cooperation in creating new rules around the technology.
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Other leaders in the field, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, also chimed in to agree, saying that things are moving too fast.
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Amid those warnings, lawmakers who have done little to regulate AI so far are facing pressure to respond.
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The House returns to Capitol Hill today for its last scheduled week of work before the midterms, and a group of lawmakers has urged Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to keep them in DC until they advance new regulations.
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But others in Washington say they're concerned about taking those regulations too far.
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With Johnson himself echoing President Trump's take that strict limits on AI companies in the US could give Chinese labs a major advantage.
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Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, there are some voices questioning the recent flurry of very public calls by AI leaders for a slowdown in development.
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Some of the critics have said executives like Amadei are overstating the dangers of AI so that they can sell more cybersecurity software.
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And others have said that by calling for a slowdown, the big AI labs are essentially just trying to cement their lead over smaller startups.
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Today on the daily.
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An interview with the AI researcher, whose warning last week about why he was quitting his job at Anthropic went viral.
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Today, the Trump administration is expected to announce that it's getting rid of limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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According to two people familiar with the plan, the head of the EPA will lay out the proposal today in Texas.
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The Biden administration had put strict rules in place that applied to coal-burning power plants and new gas-powered ones as it tried to limit planet warming emissions.
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