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The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI

aired Sep 17, 2026 · 20.0m
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confidence 0.99
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Clty73.1
Summary

I'm coming to you from a hotel room in Washington, D.C., where just yesterday I was at the pro-human AI assembly. That tweet went viral to more than 100 million people in about 12 to 24 hours, which I've just never seen.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, people, know, including: This is Tristan Harris.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And when in history do you get Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Bernie Sanders, Susan Rice, all agreeing that the default trajectory towards building recursively self-improving AI systems
  2. 02So these AIs basically were given an exploit gym, like a cyber hacking test to see how capable they were at hacking
  3. 03Because the third chapter of the story that's less well known is after these this 1200 agent ai swarm hacked hugging face it actually turned around in the third chapter and hacked
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