Ep. 73 — An Anthropic researcher gave up his equity to warn AI could kill us all, Josh Hawley opens a Senate probe into OpenAI, and US agencies ask labs to quietly downgrade suspected copycats

An Anthropic researcher gave up his equity to warn AI could kill us all, Josh Hawley opens a Senate probe into OpenAI, and US agencies ask labs to quietly downgrade suspected copycats 00:48 — An Anthropic researcher quit and forfeited unvested equity to say the labs are 'gambling with our lives' — and his safety lead publicly agreed 02:17 — Follow-up: Josh Hawley opens a Senate investigation into OpenAI's Hugging Face breach — and cites the Anthropic researchers by name in his letter to Altman 03:47 — NSA, CISA and the FBI name six Chinese AI firms for industrial-scale distillation — and tell US labs to quietly switch suspected accounts to a dumber model 05:17 — OpenAI puts Paul Christiano — who co-invented RLHF and then left to work on alignment — on the Foundation board's Safety and Security Committee 05:42 — Ramp's data says AI spend per employee at the heaviest-using firms fell almost 10% in August — while the price of a million tokens fell from $1.15 to $0.68 06:06 — 'Agentic flooding': a researcher tracked 84 cases across 11 jurisdictions where AI assistants multiplied claims to public services — and most of the claims were valid 06:30 — Follow-up: a second mathematician asks OpenAI to prove his ChatGPT conversations didn't end up in the training data 06:54 — Apple says AI picks which hinge goes in which iPhone Duo, then a laser scans every unit and 3D-prints up to 25 micro-layers to flatten the waviness Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.