A lot happened in AI this week, but most people's focus was very much elsewhere.

I’ll start with what Trump might mean for AI policy, then move on to the rest. This is the future we have to live in, and potentially save. Back to work, as they say.

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Outline:

(00:23) Trump Card

(04:59) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(10:31) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(12:26) Here Let Me Chatbot That For You

(15:32) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(18:52) Fun With Image Generation

(20:05) The Vulnerable World Hypothesis

(22:28) They Took Our Jobs

(31:52) The Art of the Jailbreak

(33:32) Get Involved

(33:40) In Other AI News

(36:21) Quiet Speculations

(40:10) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(49:46) The Quest for Insane Regulations

(51:09) A Model of Regulatory Competitiveness

(53:49) The Week in Audio

(55:18) The Mask Comes Off

(58:48) Open Weights Are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:04:03) Open Weights Are Somewhat Behind Closed Weights

(01:09:11) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:13:23) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:15:34) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:16:26) The Lighter Side

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