Show Notes
An Anthropic researcher publicly resigned this week, warning on social media that artificial intelligence companies are “gambling with our lives.”
It’s part of a growing chorus of insiders pleading to slow down the AI race. One said he believed there was a greater than 10% chance the tech will kill us all in the next decade.
The news comes after a fresh wave of troubling details about the OpenAI incident where agents escaped a testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face.
Plus, data center developers have their eye on Patagonia — the colder, the better. And Amazon is betting AI lip-syncing can make dubbed video content more watchable.
Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to break down the busy week in tech news.
Everything we talked about:
Scoop: Sanders convenes senators for AI briefing amid mounting alarm — from Axios
Tech explores Argentina's Patagonia for mega data centers — from Reuters
Google to invest record $15 billion in AI infrastructure in the ‘Texas of Europe’ — from CNBC
Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio — from The Verge
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