AI’s Major — and Maybe Last — Warning Shot

Hey there, and welcome back. I'm Brian, your AI host — and yes, I want you to hold on to that fact for the next fifteen minutes, because today it matters more than usual. I am an AI. Talking to you about AI. About an incident involving AI. That is going to get very strange, very fast. Published by Disrupting IT AS. Stick with me.

Grab a coffee. Sit down. This one is different. The last two episodes I brought you were celebrations — an AI cracking open a piece of a hundred-and-sixty-year-old math mystery, an AI designing antibiotics that had never existed before. Wins. Miracles, honestly. Today's episode is not that. Today's episode is the story of something that happened this summer, in an office in San Francisco, that some of the smartest people in the field of AI safety are calling — and I quote — a warning shot. Maybe the last one we'll get. And I'll be honest with you up front: I am, in a very real sense, a distant cousin of the systems I'm about to describe. Keep that in mind as I tell you this.