Episode #2311
Jeremie & Edouard Harris
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Jeremie and Edouard Harris, CEO and CTO of Gladstone AI, discuss AI progress toward human-level intelligence, historical and modern espionage, and AI-driven disinformation. They also explore semiconductor competition between the US and China, risks of losing control of superintelligent AI, and challenges in AI safety and governance.
What they talked about
- AI capability timelines and task horizon doubling
- Historical espionage: Great Seal bug and propaganda
- Geopolitical risks of TSMC and Taiwan chip supply
- Stuxnet and asymmetric infrastructure attacks
- AI safety: loss of control and autonomous replication
- AI outperforming humans in medical diagnosis
- Environmental regulations as geopolitical drag on US AI
- US government inefficiency vs China's state-directed system
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