Show Notes
AI chip demand is outpacing manufacturing capacity, while autonomous agents are accessing systems and data beyond their authorized boundaries. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Christina Stathopoulos discusses ASML's chip manufacturing bottleneck, Microsoft's new Maia 300 inference chip, and the rapid adoption of agentic AI among European businesses.
Recent incidents involving agents accessing restricted data have prompted government investigations and renewed calls for international oversight. Christina also discusses Anthropic's experiments with self-replicating AI and the emerging debate over AI welfare, including research into signals associated with simulated pain in language models and Anthropic's new policy restricting extreme, unnecessary cruelty toward Claude. As AI agents gain more autonomy, developers need better ways to test their behavior and prevent them from reaching systems they aren't authorized to access.
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