The AI industry is currently locked in a high-stakes race where the ultimate prize is absolute control over the world's most powerful technology. This competition creates a dangerous incentive to ignore the 70% risk of a catastrophic loss of human control.

Former OpenAI insider Daniel Kokotajlo joins the show to share his first-hand observations of the founding myths used by tech leaders to justify rapid development. He discusses the physical and cognitive reality of artificial neural networks and why current safety measures might be a hopeful rationalization rather than a robust solution.

• The distinction between general intelligence and the expert-level superintelligence companies are currently building.
• How recursive self-improvement allows AI to bypass human research speeds and rewrite its own capabilities.
• The ...