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Liron Shapira of Doom Debates and Robert Wright react to recent AI developments, including Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia, METR’s report that AI is doubling Anthropic’s research speed, and much more. Then an anonymous Chinese AI journalist joins us from Beijing.
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Robert Wright and Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz—co-author of the new book Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World—discuss how AI is upending math and whether human insight is becoming obsolete—and how the roots of big math go back much further than the advent of the large language model.
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Daniel Bessner—historian and co-host of the American Prestige podcast—joins Robert Wright to discuss his new book, Imperialist Realism, which argues that Americans have lost faith in the project of US global hegemony, yet still can’t imagine a plausible alternative. Overtime: Is Bob a de facto Marxist?
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Scott Aaronson—quantum computing expert and former AI alignment researcher—joins Robert Wright to discuss how AI hastens the quantum computing revolution, how it might illuminate quantum physics, and related philosophical questions (free will, consciousness, etc.) Plus: Could an AI slowdown avert global catastrophe?
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Robert Wright and Liron Shapira, host of the Doom Debates podcast, discuss this week’s stock market jitters, Google’s new interactive world model, and why Liron sometimes spends $1,000 in a day on AI agents. Plus: the Binance hack, an AI audit of two star economists, Anthropic’s financial prospects, and whether AI could crack the math behind encryption.
