BAES 170: Why every AI CEO suddenly wants to slow down
Summary
Ben and Emil analyze the recent AI safety panic triggered by Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic and Dario Amodei’s call to "pace the frontier." The hosts discuss the timeline of events, including Sam Altman’s agreement to independent evaluators and the Hugging Face agent incident, while questioning the timing of these safety pledges. They contrast these moves with Donald Trump’s dismissal of AI risks as a hoax and Jensen Huang’s defense of the industry. The episode explores whether this sudden alignment among AI leaders is genuine concern or a strategic effort to preempt regulation, m…
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