Robert Wright and Nathan Labenz, host of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, discuss all things open source AI—its meaning, its promise, its perils, and more.Play entire video
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s decision not to seek re-election in Arizona, and whether she could have survived by working harder not to alienate the progressive base.
Timothy B. Lee, author of the newsletter Understanding AI, and Robert Wright discuss the Elon v. OpenAI case, Google’s AI issues, the limits of LLMs, how Sora changes the AI picture, and more.
Robert Wright and Paul Bloom discuss Gemini gone wild(ly woke), the age-old Biden old age question, the psychology of the self-immolating airman, and more.
On this week’s DMZ, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether a Democrat winning the special election in New York spells trouble for Trump in November.
Robert Wright and cognitive scientist Gary Marcus debate how to think about how LLMs work, and also discuss AI’s impact on society and what we should do about it.
Robert Wright and Nora Belrose, Head of Interpretability at EleutherAI, discuss AI doomerism, whether we really want AI with human values, how AI “minds” work, and more.
Robert Wright and Rob Wiblin, host of the 80,000 Hours podcast, discuss the state of the EA movement in light of the SBF fiasco, the longtermist (r)evolution, and AI anxiety going mainstream.
Robert Wright and American Prestige hosts Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner discuss Israel’s plans for Palestine, Biden’s electoral difficulties, and what a left-wing foreign policy vision looks like today.
Robert Wright and Russ Roberts, president of Shalem College in Jerusalem and host of the EconTalk podcast, discuss the war, media bias, free speech, and tribalism.
Glenn announces the publication of his book, and John asks him why he decided to write his forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confession of a Black Conservative.
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss lab-leak news and lessons (not) learned, the truth about effective altruism, what makes plagiarism plagiarism, and more.
Robert Wright and tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman discuss ways AI anxiety goes wrong (and right). Plus: Reid’s Impromptu book collab with GPT-4; pros and cons of an AI pause; and the Altman paradox: resolved?
Timothy B. Lee, author of the newsletter Understanding AI, and Robert Wright discuss recent developments in AI and debate how concerned we should be about the pace of its evolution in the near and long term.
Robert Wright and journalist Jefferson Morley, publisher of the JFK Facts newsletter, discuss what we know—and still don’t know—about the JFK assassination.