Things in San Francisco are starting to feel very sci-fi, and it seems like every day we’re learning more about artificial intelligence agents gone wild. Calls are increasingly mounting for someone to rein in this technology before it’s too late. On today&#x27;s episode, how worried should we be about rogue AI? And can our biggest homegrown AI company do anything about it? Do you have a story idea for us? Give us a call at (206) 221-7158 and leave a voicemail. You can also email us at booming@kuow.org. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/boomingnotes. Booming is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. Our editor is Carol Smith. Our producers are Lucy Soucek and Alec Cowan. Our hosts are Joshua McNichols and Monica Nickelsburg. Support the show: https://kuow.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Microsoft's stern warning for AI frontier labs

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Anthropic, the maker of Claude, says that it blocked several potential plots this year by scientists who were using its AI models to conduct research that could have led to the creation of bioweapons. This revelation, of course, coming just days after an Anthropic employee quit, warning that AI could kill all humans within the next 10 years. OpenAI reports six new incidents involving troubling behavior with its AI models. And here in the Seattle area, Microsoft is having none of it.

If we cannot control it, then we shouldn't advance it. And let's stop until we do. I think that's common sense. It seems like every day we're learning more and more about artificial intelligence agents going wild. And calls are mounting for someone to rein in this technology before it's too late. I'm Joshua McNichols. I'm Monica Nickelsburg. And this is Booming. Today, how worried should we be about rogue AI?

And can our biggest homegrown AI company do anything about it? That's coming up.

Joshua, good to be with you in the final days of humanity. Oh my. Yeah, good to be here. You just got back from vacation. So I hope that you have just been tuning out all of this AI doom news. But I suspect you wouldn't manage to do that entirely.

Microsoft's stern warning for AI frontier labs

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

Microsoft's stern warning for AI frontier labs

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.