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Zoe Schiffer

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953 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

They're everywhere.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

But I also want to touch on where Microsoft is in all of this, because obviously they're named as defendants in the lawsuit.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

We're expecting Satya Nadella, the CEO, to testify, but they've been a little bit quiet.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

Brian, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on kind of

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

what we're expecting from Microsoft, why they're kind of letting OpenAI duke this out while they, you know, also have a big financial stake in the outcome of this trial.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

I mean, they've got this giant... You don't see Satya Nadella posting on X about it?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

Also very Berkeley.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

We call that poly.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

One thing that's not directly part of this trial, but I still think is really important to name is just Elon Musk has this whole safety component to his argument.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

He thinks that OpenAI's founding mission was to create AI that would benefit all of humanity.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

He feels like they've gone back on that mission.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

They've put profits over people, that kind of thing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

And he's making this argument that it's like growth at all costs.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

It's not prioritizing safety, beneficial AI, all of those things.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

At the same time, he is running an AI company, XAI, that puts very few guardrails on what people can do with those models.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

They famously have launched AI girlfriends that talk to people in kind of a romantic and sexual manner.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

People are able to…

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

jailbreak the models and do all sorts of things with them, it occasionally like goes off the rails and does kind of crazy things itself.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

And so I think while, again, this isn't being litigated per se, like there is a deep irony in Elon Musk making these arguments about open AI, which frankly has a lot of guardrails in place, although it possibly needs more depending on who you talk to.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Musk v. Altman; Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?; DOJ Dismantles Voting Rights Unit

I think he has a shot.