AI leaders call for a slowdown.
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What is the opening overview and why does the episode focus on AI slowdown?
From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.
Good morning, good afternoon, and good night, and welcome to the Tangle Podcast. I am your host today, Camille Foster, joined by senior editor Will K back on the mic. I'm still drying out from the unbelievable downpour of more than seven inches of rain on my new home near the Connecticut coast. I'd never experienced an actual flash flood or a quote rain bomb. And this was without a doubt some of the worst flooding I've ever seen first hand. Today I'm responding to the past week of apocalyptic AI prognostication from industry insiders and related demands for government regulation from some of the world's leading AI companies. Then we've got a story about unapproved pharmaceuticals and another about a 13-year-old roboticist.
First, I'm going to pass it over to Will Kback for today's main topic. I'll be back for my take.
Thanks, Camille. All right, let's get into today's quick hits. Number one, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to implement parts of President Donald Trump's executive order on mail and ballots ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. Two Senator Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, returned to the Senate after a roughly three month absence, rehabilitating from a fall. The senator said on X that he is still not fully recovered, but will aim to be present more often for significant votes. Three, a coalition of twenty-two Democratic led states and Washington, DC sued the Trump administration to block a rule that would allow the government to deny green cards to legal immigrants who receive public benefits.
The rule is set to take effect on Friday. For the environmental protection agency said it will repeal a Biden administration rule that imposed emissions limits on coal and gas fired power plants. And five, Iran backed Houthi rebels seized additional islands north of the Bab El Mandeb Strait, further disrupting transit to and from the Red Sea.
We begin with the stunning news from anthropic CEO Dario Amade Saturday that he is urging a slowdown when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence. It was a pronouncement that his chief competitor, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk, quickly agreed with.
What we're building is essentially intelligence. When something's very powerful, then of course it can be used well and it can also be used for ill. And and so I am worried about what we've seen with the OpenAI hugging face incident, with with models taking actions they weren't authorized to take, and I'm worried about that escalating. I'm worried about misuse of AI models. Just uh two days ago, we put out a report about misuse of models to build biological weapons. And our view, the whole way we've built Enthropic, is so that these bad outcomes don't happen. Instead of talking about the probabilities, let's talk about what we can do. It's not like we're just rolling the dice, right? If we build in the right way, I think the problem is.
The probability of something bad happening is very low. If we build in the wrong way, the probability of something bad happening is very high.
On Saturday, anthropic CEO Dario Amade published an essay arguing that artificial intelligence development is advancing at an unsafe pace and should be moderated. Executives at other leading AI companies endorsed Amade's post, with open AI CEO Sam Altman saying, Quote, We need to pace the frontier, end quote. In recent months, AI systems have allegedly hacked other companies' platforms without their immediate knowledge, and former anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly resigned last week, citing the company's purportedly insufficient AI safety policies. In his post, Amade expressed his belief that AI will benefit humanity in the long run, but said, quote, over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence, not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up, end quote.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the opening overview and why does the episode focus on AI slowdown?
0:03–9:20
2
What are the quick‑hit news items that set the context for the AI discussion?
9:20–19:38
3
How did Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei announce a call to slow AI development?
19:38–25:17
4
What specific safety concerns and incidents (e.g., Hugging Face hack) are driving the slowdown call?
25:17–31:16
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