ATOW: Exploring Human Ability

Lacho Blagoev is the CPO of Lab08, where they automate due diligence for investors with AI. We talk about what happens when bad people get frontier AI, education over regulation, jobs, the calm before the storm, and whether Claude could be conscious.

Chapters:
0:00 Cold open
0:19 Intro
1:36 Lab08: from services to product
5:31 What tech due diligence shows
6:57 Are VCs AI psychotic?
9:38 When bad people get the tools
12:16 “A fan of deregulating”
15:36 Can anyone be educated?
20:17 Doom, regulation and who wins
23:10 Will everyone use AI?
26:04 One-person companies
28:39 AI and critical thinking
31:10 Jobs after AI
34:52 Hard times create strong people
36:38 The four quadrants
39:07 The calm before the storm
43:13 Asimov was right
44:34 Could Claude be conscious?
48:52 “I can’t do this to Claude”
51:03 AI companions
54:00 Universe 25 and the Viking king

Read the recap: Lacho Blagoev: Educate, don’t regulate

Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A20n2JNsDVs

Hunter Bown is the creator of CodeWhale & a law student. We discuss the future of tech, AI, and humanity.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:03 Welcome, Hunter
2:24 From band director to law school
6:33 First contact with GPT
10:17 Bell Labs, the transistor and the AT&T breakup
14:04 Who should control frontier AI?
16:07 “I wish I could give them Claude”
21:52 Hegelion: thesis, antithesis, synthesis
24:45 Bad actors vs. surveillance states
27:09 The student who built a gun detector
32:28 Building CodeWhale
35:14 The tweet that went viral in China
40:03 China: bots, culture shock, one-person companies
47:28 Open source as strategy
50:38 Patents and the disclosure system
58:14 Going to China as an American
1:01:32 Nemotron and synthetic data
1:03:50 Wrapping up: contribute to CodeWhale

Read the recap: Hunter Bown: From Law to 40k+ stars on GitHub & conference invitations

Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBcsUZuDcI