{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#41 - Some Bad Things Are Okay? AI's Bosses Argue About Danger","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/91bee87f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1699,"description":"Sam Altman told Politico the world should \"accept some bad things happening\" for the benefit of AI. The same week, New York put AI whistleblowers under oath, North Korea claimed an AI-steered missile, and China's best models closed to within about three percent of America's.\n\nToday is one question: who decides how much danger is okay — the people who build AI, or the rest of us?\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 Sam Altman: \"accept some bad things\" (02:00) — in an interview with Politico, reported by Reuters, the OpenAI CEO said \"we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefit of this technology and people having the agency.\" He rejects tight limits, points at the race with China, and has the political wind behind him. AI critic Gary Marcus answered: just say the quiet part out loud. If I hacked companies with AI agents, I would go to jail. When a lab's agents do it, it's \"some bad things\"?\n🌑 New York City puts AI under oath (05:44) — the New York City Council held a hearing on AI with testimony under oath. Bloomberg calls it a first for a US lawmaking body: not Congress, a city. Council speaker Julie Menin invited whistleblowers, among them Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic last month, Daniel Kokotajlo (ex-OpenAI) and Alex Turner (ex-Google DeepMind). On the table: outside checks for AI in city infrastructure, rewards for whistleblower tips, and a right to sue if a broken AI harms you. That last one is how rogue agents become expensive.\n🌑 China almost level, Hong Kong raises record money (08:25) — Bloomberg Intelligence's Robert Lea says the best Chinese models now trail the best US models by about three percent on test scores, down from nine percent in May and fifteen at the start of the year. On LiveBench, DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash scored 81.1 against Claude Fable 5.1's 83.4, and on autonomous coding tasks DeepSeek came out ahead. Meanwhile Hong Kong companies raised $47.5 billion by selling shares from July to September, the biggest three months...","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}