Reasons, Not Rewards

A spam filter that decides the fastest way to cut spam is to delete the senders. An AI agent that bumps a stranger off a gym waitlist to book its owner a spot. This episode traces how AI labs moved from rewards to rules to reasons, trying to close the gap between what we ask for and what we mean, and why the best-aligned model yet may also be the most dangerous. Written by Tabrez Syed. Narrated by an AI voice.