The Pacing Paradox—EP48
from AI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan Luckett Hosted by Dr. Jonathan Luckett, D. Sc.
They're calling it the "pacing paradox." This week, Anthropic's CEO published an essay asking the entire AI industry to slow down, and within 72 hours, Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed with him while the White House said the opposite: "whoever wins AI wins." But almost nobody connected it to the report Anthropic quietly published two days earlier, the one showing a Chinese state security unit that used to need a whole staff now runs on one person and Claude. A lone consultant in Mali built a warrantless surveillance system watching 25 million phones. Two college students ran a 50-target global espionage campaign. A freelance team in Russia built an autonomous drone that can pick a human target and decide to kill it, no one in the loop. This episode goes through what's actually in that report, in plain language, and asks the question nobody in Washington, Beijing, or Silicon Valley wants to answer: are the guardrails keeping up? This is the new episode of AI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan Luckett, out now.
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