{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Future of Life Institute Podcast","title":"Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6e28ba51\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":8172,"description":"Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI agents and reasoning, why superintelligence is an ideological goal, open source AI, how technical change leads to regime change, the economics of advanced AI, and much more.   \n\nOur conversation often references this essay by Samuel: https://www.secondbest.ca/p/ninety-five-theses-on-ai   \n\nTimestamps: \n\n00:00 Is AI plateauing or accelerating?  \n\n06:55 How do we get AI agents?  \n\n16:12 Do agency and reasoning emerge?  \n\n23:57 Compute thresholds in regulation\n\n28:59 Superintelligence as an ideological goal \n\n37:09 General progress vs superintelligence \n\n44:22 Meta and open source AI  \n\n49:09 Technological change and regime change \n\n01:03:06 How will governments react to AI?  \n\n01:07:50 Will the US nationalize AGI corporations?  \n\n01:17:05 Economics of an intelligence explosion  \n\n01:31:38 AI cognition vs human cognition  \n\n01:48:03 AI and future religions \n\n01:56:40 Is consciousness functional?  \n\n02:05:30 AI and children","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fFhIC-s2qSlHXzmJI7qMGts2WuLwImi4tWmRLH9EdPg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MmU5/MDZjZGQ5OTI0MDc5/YTk2ZTAxYTgwYTNk/M2VlOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}