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#245: OpenAI DevDay and Dots, OpenAI’s Safety Crisis, Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence & Anthropic Targets Pre-Thanksgiving IPO Ad:

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An OpenAI safety researcher resigned and published an essay arguing the company's safety culture can't keep up with its own release pace; the same week OpenAI fired three safety researchers and canceled a model release over internal test results. Paul Roe...

Highlights

Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput unpack OpenAI’s DevDay and safety troubles, the politics of “superintelligence,” Anthropic’s IPO ambitions, new liability pressures, emerging AI capabilities, practical use cases, and the week’s product news.
05:10
The episode starts with OpenAI
10:07
DevDay’s reaction was pretty meh
14:48
Personal agents may crater after the novelty wears off
25:04
Iterative deployment guarantees periodic failures
29:14
The Accord Is Voluntary
35:33
AGI Is Already Here, Unevenly Distributed
40:37
Rebranding is not superintelligence
48:04
Passing the loyalty test failed the backbone test
51:11
A name change without a definition
55:05
Anthropic could be valued above $2 trillion
59:23
Argon expands the context window to one million tokens
1:05:26
The investigation may be a warning shot
1:11:45
AI can appear conscious without being conscious
1:18:11
AI video is becoming nearly indistinguishable from a human conversation
1:23:58
AI using AI feels a little sci-fi
1:30:13
Apple tightens access controls because of autonomous agents

Chapters

Intro
00:00
OpenAI DevDay and Dots
05:19
OpenAI’s Safety Crisis Deepens
20:04
Trump Signs Super Intelligence Accord
28:51
Anthropic Targets Pre-Thanksgiving IPO
54:19
Google Previews Gemini 4
59:02
AI Companies Face New Liability Pressure
1:02:29
Anthropic and Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical
1:07:07
Startup Claims First “Human Interaction” Model
1:17:39
AI Use Case Spotlight
1:22:47
AI Product and Funding Updates
1:28:22

Transcript

Paul Roetzer: be like, how did my AI know to recommend that to me? How did it know I hadn't done this with my diet? And it's just going to be like the shock and awe moment where they think this thing is like, sentient. And in reality, it's just a predictiv...