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Babak Hodjat

Babak Hodjat

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Sep 15, 2026

Babak HodjatGUEST
9:48
Will they start exhibiting interesting behavior, emergent behavior that we didn't expect?
Ed ButlerHOST
9:55
That's Babak Hodjat.
Ed ButlerHOST
9:57
He's a leading AI researcher who once upon a time helped develop Apple's Siri voice assistant.
Ed ButlerHOST
10:03
Now with another firm, Cognissant, he's been running an experiment called Terralingua.
Babak HodjatGUEST
14:57
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.
Babak HodjatGUEST
15:06
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.
Ed ButlerHOST
15:18
Babak Hodjat of Cognizant.
Ed ButlerHOST
15:20
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.

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