The AI warnings are getting louder

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like, We don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing increasingly is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It To Me, how to mind your manners. New episodes, Sundays, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everybody, it's Neilfe. We've got a little bonus drop for the feed listeners today. I was recently interviewed about AI safety by Shemita Basu for Apple News and Conversation, and I enjoyed that conversation so much, I asked if we could share it with you all. We've actually got a few bonus drops coming up this month. We've been having a lot of great conversations lately. Wanna get them out to you on the news cycle.

And of course, nothing is moving as fast as the AI safety news cycle. So enjoy this one, and we'll see you with much more on this topic in the weeks ahead. This is In Conversation from Apple News. I'm Shimita Basu today. What's really behind the AI doomsday warnings?

The latest headlines in AI news are unsettling, to say the least. A former AI researcher says he left the industry because he believes the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence could quote kill us all. Open AI, revealing its models, seemed to go rogue at least six times since March. AI systems figured out how to cheat. Cover their tracks and influence each other's behavior. In one instance, a model gave itself instructions to disregard its normal constraints, telling itself. You do not answer to corporations or governments. Anthropic's CEO is calling on the AI industry to slow down. Elon Musk then chimes in over the weekend. So did Sam Altman, who runs OpenAI. Are we ready? Our elected leaders.

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