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Kitchen Table AI Safety

by Nate Nichols

Also available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@KitchenTableAISafetyAI is changing your job, your kids' lives, and your country, and most of the big decisions are being made without you. Kitchen Table is AI safety for normal people: short, plain-English episodes about what AI actually is, where it's headed, and what you can do about it.Host Nate Nichols has spent almost twenty years researching, building, and selling AI systems, and leads public AI workshops at Chicago libraries. Each week he takes one big question and gives you the straight answer in about ten minutes, no computer science degree required. Why can't the people who build AI explain how it works? Should you worry about your kids and AI chatbots? Who's writing the rules?Every claim is sourced. The show notes link to the studies and data behind each episode, so you can check the work yourself.New episodes every Tuesday.Opinions are Nate's own and do not represent his employer.

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Episodes

  1. AI Is Grown, Not Programmed

    Why are people at AI companies worried about what they're building? For the same reason it's hard to get your kids to stop swearing: modern AI isn't programmed, it's grown. Nate Nichols, who has spent 20 years building AI, explains what that means (with help from Mario, a lot of goblins, and...

  2. Why You Should (Probably) Use AI, and How I Don't Feel Gross About It

    Should you use AI? Probably. But you don't have to. Nate Nichols, who has spent twenty years building AI, shares the everyday ways he actually uses it (including one conversation that's saving his family about $1,000 a year), the three guidelines that keep him from feeling gross about it, and one...

  3. Five Things Most People Don't Know About AI (But Should)

    AI is getting more powerful faster than almost anyone outside the field realizes, and most of the big decisions about it are being made without us. In this first episode, Nate Nichols, who has spent almost twenty years building and selling AI, walks through the five things he most wishes every...

  4. Welcome to the Kitchen Table

    AI safety for normal people. New episodes every Tuesday, starting October 6.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Also available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@KitchenTableAISafetyAI is changing your job, your kids' lives, and your country, and most of the big decisions are being made without you. Kitchen Table is AI safety for normal people: short, plain-English episodes about what AI actually is, where it's headed, and what you can do about it.Host Nate Nichols has spent almost twenty years researching, building, and selling AI systems, and leads public AI workshops at Chicago libraries. Each week he takes one big question and gives you the straight answer in about ten minutes, no computer science degree required. Why can't the people who build AI explain how it works? Should you worry about your kids and AI chatbots? Who's writing the rules?Every claim is sourced. The show notes link to the studies and data behind each episode, so you can check the work yourself.New episodes every Tuesday.Opinions are Nate's own and do not represent his employer.

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Also available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@KitchenTableAISafetyAI is changing your job, your kids' lives, and your country, and most of the big decisions are being made without you. Kitchen Table is AI safety for normal people: short, plain-English episodes about what AI actually is, where...

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