Archive - AI Summer

James Grimmelmann on the copyright threat to AI companies

"For a lot of authors this is as much a moral crusade as an economic one."

Mar 19 •

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James Grimmelmann

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53:06

February 2025

Andrew Lee on running an AI email startup

Tim's brother goes deep on the practicalities of building on top of fast-changing AI models.

Feb 27 •

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1:01:13

Dean and Tim on Deep Research and the Paris Summit

Global attitudes toward AI safety and the future of policy research

Feb 21 •

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1:03:29

Kashmir Hill on falling love with ChatGPT

Users are customizing chatbots like ChatGPT to fulfill emotional and even erotic needs, often bypassing built-in safeguards.

Feb 12 •

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52:14

Sophia Tung on riding a self-driving taxi in China

How good are Chinese AVs?

Feb 5 •

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1:03:16

January 2025

Dean and Tim on DeepSeek and AI progress

Our first non-interview episode.

Jan 29 •

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Nathan Labenz on the future of AI scaling

“None of this seems like it should work.The fact that it does should keep us fairly humble about how far it could go.”

Jan 27 •

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The Cognitive Revolution

1:18:55

Lennart Heim on the AI diffusion rule

"It would be a lie to say this is not going to have any economic impact"

Jan 23 •

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1:06:16

Sam Hammond on getting government ready for AI

"Once capabilities get demonstrated, we should start to brace for impact."

Jan 20 •

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58:00

Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity

A prominent AI safety advocate explores how doomers differ from skeptics.

Jan 16 •

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1:13:23

Nathan Lambert on the rise of "thinking" language models

Traditional LLM scaling is "not something that most users of ChatGPT will see any difference from at this point."

Jan 14 •

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1:00:48

Jon Askonas on AI policy in the Trump era

"Sanctions on Chinese AI is industrial policy for Chinese AI, viewed from a certain perspective.”

Jan 9 •

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Dr. Jonathan Askonas

1:05:13

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