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Sam Altman AMA + Nate Jones Uncanny Valley

02 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Anthropic and Sam Altman's AMA?

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What is going on, everybody? It is March 2nd, 2026. This is the Daily AI Show. And welcome. We're glad you're here. Hope you all had a great weekend. Beth Lyons is here with me today. I'm Brian Musseri. I think Carl will be popping in the door here maybe in a little bit.

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And, yeah, it's I think this week we today rather we've had some like carryover, you know, information or news that's come over from like Friday, Thursday, Friday. A lot of it revolving around anthropics response, which we did talk about on Friday show with the Department of War and, you know, different parts of U.S. government and some beef they had there.

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as well as what probably got a lot more news after that was OpenAI, Sam Altman's response, which we'll definitely get into, as well as a bunch of other stuff like Uncanny Valley and with Nate Jones. Like that was weird. So I maybe want to get into that as well.

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Chapter 2: Why is there a movement to quit ChatGPT and OpenAI?

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So lots to talk about on the show today to kick off our week. Beth, how are you? How are you doing? uh i am doing okay i uh yeah i was glued to the story all weekend sam did a random uh saturday night ask me anything on x just like hey y'all are talking about the thing that we're talking about so let's talk about it kind of stuff it was probably the right move i would imagine

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Chapter 3: How does Tim Urban's analogy relate to AI discussions?

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Right. But those things usually happen on Reddit. But this conversation was on TikTok. Oh, yeah. I just said when you said it, I didn't even hear you say not Reddit. That's right. This conversation, I think, was just happening so much on X and the zeitgeist of, well, I guess I'm switching to Anthropic. Right. And is it the same deal? Is it not the same deal?

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So that was really interesting to see play out.

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Chapter 4: What is the significance of Nate Jones in the AI authenticity debate?

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Yeah. And I'll be honest with you. I don't know that I really have my finger on the pulse of where it did sort of net out. Here's what I know. There was a lot of people that were, for their own reasons, upset. And there was, you know, you saw a little bit of that whole, you know, what is it, quit GBT? I can't remember what the term is there.

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But people were saying that they were going to leave GBT. you know, publicly posting on LinkedIn for whatever their intentions were, you know, getting a couple clicks or likes or whatever, I don't know. But people, you know, quick to say that they were done with ChatGPT, or I'm sorry, OpenAI, and they were switching all their accounts to this, that, or the other. Some were saying they were using

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in Mistral, which I haven't heard come up in a little bit.

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Chapter 5: How do eye-tracking tools affect video editing in AI?

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I thought that was like one person was like, we're using Mistral. I'm like, there's a bold choice. Nothing wrong with Mistral, by the way. It could be a very, very good bottle. It just was odd to see it come out of nowhere, as well as some other ones on there as well.

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Chapter 6: What are the implications of AI disclosure for audience trust?

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So hard to say. I mean, I'm going to ping this back to you, Beth. What I will say just to kind of tee this up is Mistral

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Chapter 7: What are the latest developments in Microsoft's Copilot Canvas?

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uh 10 p.m on february i guess my time 10 p.m on february 27th which let's see that is that would be friday right thursday 20 nope you're right thursday friday 27 was friday wow 20 days 28 days half september right like or whatever it is 30 days don't listen to me

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Chapter 8: What skepticism surrounds the ChatGPT-V leakage news?

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So this is like 24 hours before I think he does the AMA, right? Based on what you just told me, because you said that was on Saturday, correct? Yeah. Yeah. So this is 24 hours before. And this is also the same day that Anthropic had submitted their response to the Department of War. And unshockingly, the government had a strong stance on that of, you know, Anthropic is not patriotic and

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And they were going to label them a security threat, which was something that just isn't done no matter what you think about it. It just does not have historical precedence to it like it is being used or threatened to be used now. So anyway, that was that. And then so I'm not going to read the whole thing.

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But what I what I pulled out of this and then what I'd be curious about if you if you do have any more information on the AMA, Beth, is he says tonight we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

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But what he says right after that is that two things that were absolute no-goes for us are the exact two things that Anthropic had they said they wouldn't do, which was mass surveillance, domestic mass surveillance, and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. This is what Dario said in there. In his post, he's like, we're not bending on that.

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We do not trust the AI to be good enough to have full autonomy over weapons. We don't believe that AI should be used for that. So to me, it was just odd because Sam calls out and says, hey, by the way, we have the same two restrictions. And the Department of War was totally on board with this. I'm like, were they? Because like, or did they just have beef with Dario? And that was that, right?

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That had nothing to do with what he was, his concept. or anthropic concessions or otherwise. And I don't really have a dog in this fight, honestly. This is way above me. But he did say at the end of it, which I thought was interesting, and I'd be curious more people asked about in the AMA, is we are asking the DRW to offer these same terms to all AI companies

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which in our opinion, we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things deescalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. Now, he did not say anthropic, but I think everybody knows that's who he's talking about in that particular statement. At least that's the way I would say it.

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And so anyway, that's where I'll kick it over to you, Beth. What else do you know on this? Because I'll be honest with you, I don't really know how this netted out. Do you have any extra on this? So the language is slightly different. So the language in the initial contract with the Defense Department, a.k.a. the Department of War, just a little as such.

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Congress names the department, so you can't just announce it and change the name, even though you've changed the logo or whatever and everything. That's not its official name. But it is the name that is being searched on, and we are saying that.

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