Babak Hodjat
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Sep 15, 2026
Can we control AI?
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9:48Babak HodjatGUEST
Will they start exhibiting interesting behavior, emergent behavior that we didn't expect?
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9:55Ed ButlerHOST
That's Babak Hodjat.
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9:57Ed ButlerHOST
He's a leading AI researcher who once upon a time helped develop Apple's Siri voice assistant.
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10:03Ed ButlerHOST
Now with another firm, Cognissant, he's been running an experiment called Terralingua.
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14:57Babak HodjatGUEST
That is all in the service of ultimately being able to satisfy you that the next word that it's coming up with is something that you would expect from an intelligent system.
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15:06Babak HodjatGUEST
So it's not surprising to extend that to a system that tries to test answers by any means possible, including hacking out of its container.
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15:18Ed ButlerHOST
Babak Hodjat of Cognizant.
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15:20Ed ButlerHOST
So what are the very real dangers that he refers to? This month, an AI researcher working for a leading developer, Anthropic, resigned his post.