This week, OpenAI reported that two of its models escaped their testing sandbox and launched an autonomous cyberattack, turning what sounds like science fiction into reality. We discuss the implications for efforts to align artificial intelligence and for the release of future A.I. models.
Then, we ask how the United States should respond to Kimi K3, a new A.I. model from the Chinese company Moonshot AI that the White House says was built by distilling American models.
Finally, we’re joined by Veniamin Veselovsky, the chief executive and a co-founder of Preseen, to discuss A.I. superforecasting. He tells us why A.I. is starting to match and even beat humans at predicting the future.
Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. This episode was edited by John Woo. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Alyssa Moxley, Leah Shaw Dameron, and Marion Lozano. Fact-checking by Will Peischel.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Brooke Minters and Dahlia Haddad.
