{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#40 - The Safety Writer Quits: The AI Boom Hits the Real World","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8e4dd36a\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2408,"description":"The man who wrote OpenAI's safety reports walked out and told the world, in The Atlantic, that the culture is broken. The same week, neighbours from Seoul to Cape Town said no to the buildings AI runs in, and memory got so scarce that AI hardware now costs more and gives you less.\n\nToday is about AI leaving the lab — and the real world pushing back.\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 OpenAI's safety writer quits in public (02:14) — TechCrunch reports that David Robinson, who led the safety reports that ship with OpenAI's big launches and worked on its Preparedness Framework, has quit after three and a half years. His essay in The Atlantic: \"I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken.\" His key line: \"The time for trial and error is over.\" OpenAI ships, watches what breaks, then fixes it. He says that with models this strong, guaranteed failures are no longer acceptable, and labs should run like nuclear power plants or busy airports. It's the person who wrote the pilot's safety checklist walking off the plane. And it's not a one-off: Jan Leike left in May 2024.\n🌑 From Seoul to Cape Town, neighbours say no to AI buildings (08:16) — a Quinnipiac poll from late September: 72% of Americans oppose an AI data centre in their own community. In Seoul, residents protested one eight-storey data centre for 191 days, and officials want majority consent from everyone living within 200 metres. Thailand has suspended 49 data-centre projects, Equinix's planned sites in water-short Cape Town would use over 4.4 billion litres of water a year, and Scotland has paused approvals for its biggest sites. My take: it won't stop the build-out. But if your AI plans need data-centre capacity, planning permission is now a real limit.\n🌑 China's robots clock in for the holiday (15:07) — it's Golden Week, and AgiBot has put more than 300 humanoid robots to work greeting visitors at Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai. Not a stage demo — real crowds and real children. The number I'd like to see: how often a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}