Connor Leahy

Now, only the paranoid survive, so it is good to be paranoid.

It is very good that we have people like Conor Leahy that are aggressively banging this drum to get people to focus on the problems.

But right now, I think the people that are screaming to have the government regulate it, it's a PSYOP, this is all about regulatory capture.

These guys know that there are already laws in place to stop them from creating products that are harmful.

And now he's taken the fight to Washington.

He is Connor Leahy.

He's US director of Control AI, and he thinks the safest move for superintelligence is to not build it at all.

Thanks for joining us, Connor.

So is that a yes or that is a no?

Joining me now to discuss this is Conor Leahy.

He's the US Executive Director of Control AI.

Uh, good morning, Conor, and welcome.

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See, what's really interesting is all the people I spoke to in the safety community, yourself now, Nate Tors, Connor Leahy and the control AI people, they're all pro-AI.

Yeah.

Well, not all of them.

It is far more complex than that.

That's why I think after talking to Connor Leahy, that really felt like a dividing line for me in terms of how I think about this, that there is a type of AI or behaviors that you simply can't let it do.

And any generation of AI that does that thing, you just have to kill and it can never make the, you know, reach the real world.

And so that we have to be very careful about is what I call weapons grade AI.

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I'm actually releasing these in this last stretch on Substack for everybody because I want everyone to get this important information as we come into the midterms but your support would be greatly appreciated there and keep our show going also we had our interview on Tuesday this time with Connor Leahy from control AI it was a really fascinating conversation we went deep into the hugging face hack everything that's going on with super intelligence and the need to stop it, but also as existentially terrifying as the interview was, there was a lot of practical stuff that we can do and a lot of hope that we will actually have not just federal but global intervention to – much akin to like the nuclear proliferation agreements that we've been able to – to do around nuclear armaments.

So it was a hopeful interview too, and really went in depth.

So I recommend everyone check it out if you haven't already.

Well, that's it for me and the Brady.

My thanks to Connor Leahy, our guest, our audio editor, Paul Mills, producers, Aisha Zengen, Malice Woodham, Anna Zikareva, and our program editor, Elizabeth Callahan.

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