Tracy Mumford
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8,886 appearances
123 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard today
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Tracey Mumford.
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We'll be back tomorrow.
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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.
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I'm Tracy Mumford.
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Today's Monday, September 14th.
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Here's what we're covering.
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Over the past few days, a drumbeat of concern about the speed and potential dangers of AI development has been growing louder and louder.
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With fears of a possible AI doomsday and a flurry of debate over what could prevent it.
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Do you believe AI poses
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To boil things down, one of the big worries is whether AI is improving so quickly that it will soon be able to make itself smarter, a dynamic known as recursive self-improvement.
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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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