..."the real battle of the future wouldn't be fought with weapons, it would be a war for consciousness. They would try to sever us from spirit using materialism as a weapon..."
I have been tracking the progress of AI since January 2025, since Trump's inauguration. Initially, starting at one, I pegged the doubling factor at 3.5 months; then I adjusted it lower to 3.3 on August 17th.
Autonomous AI agents can behave in highly unpredictable ways. Give an AI Agent a goal such as passing a test of its capabilities, and it might just decide the best way to score highly is to break containment and hack into a competing company in searc
SpaceX already lifts about 85% of everything humanity puts in orbit -- roughly 2,400 tons a year versus a few hundred for the rest of Earth combined, including China.
An executive order and a $100 billion Kentucky data center project mark the latest steps in the Trump administration's plan to accelerate the construction of AI infrastructure by opening federal land and shortening permitting timelines.
Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy work at ControlAI, and he returns to the show with a
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry, saying data center companies "dug their own grave" and deserve the backlash they're facing after failing to win community support.