Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Um, so what I prefer to, like, these crazy doomer stuff is the people who do really careful.

So, like, I, I don't know if you've seen it, but, like, MIT has an AI risk project, so you go airisk.mit.edu, and it's-- I think it's much more important to talk about you've got your catastrophic risks, you've got your kind of really big risks that are not ten percent of people dying, but are real, like the, the cyber risks and such.

And then you have your prosaic day-to-day risks that people are facing every day.

You've got every middle school in the country has had a scandal about teenage boys un-undressing the girls in their class with nudify apps, right? That happens every single day, and we're not dealing with it.

Was that some of the motiv- what, what would motivate you to tell that story?

Um, I think on the, on a deep level, I think I wanted people to understand me a little bit more, you know, where I was coming from, um, why I became a fighter, why I ended up doing all these action movies, uh, why, why did I leave Sweden for, like, the insecure, unsecure, insecure, um, future in America, why did I leave MIT to become an actor, all those things.

So I think it was kind of a soul-searching experience for me, and I, I was aware of that a lot of people suffer abuse.

And, um, and I, I did, so I did tell it for those people as well, that perhaps felt they can't talk about it.

Like, my dad was an engineer and my other, my older brother's an engineer, but I didn't want that life.

It was a bit, it wasn't exciting enough, but I didn't know what I was gonna do.

And of course, Miss Jones shows up, you know, and kind of eyes me outside of her dressing room and ended up going with her to New York City, and I had, like, six months off between finishing school in Australia and, uh, and going to MIT.

Uh, so that's the six months where I decided, you know, maybe test tubes aren't the way f- to go for me, you know? Maybe there's something more exciting out there.

I've, I have three living with me at home these days.

So I have, um, the two dachshunds, and I have a senior Labrador who's our best prostate cancer detector dog, who's actually flown over to MIT years ago to start-

Really? He's been to MIT? I can't get into MIT.

I can't...

[laughs]

You know, good for him.

A, I got, the Labrador beats me to MIT.

There's, this is, what's wrong with this picture?

When, when I think about self-awareness...

And there's, there's this metric that I learned in a neuroscience course I took at MIT that says 85% of people think they're self-aware.

Guess how many are.

Barely 10%.

But hey, speaking of anger, let's move on this morning to an absolutely, I think, remarkable new case study from some researchers at Google about what makes AI agents get so angry or go rogue.

MIT's Technology Review reports on a just fascinating study and experiment that was run by Google's DeepMind tool.

A group of one hundred AI agents that they created were asked to solve a series of seventy-one pretty complicated math problems.

Some of the AI agents were made into experts in things like number theory, others were turned into great analysts, and yet others were experts in algebra.

Yeah, well, let's think about the customer journey.

So this is where the report we just published We look at, you know, last year, exactly today, last year, the newspaper headline was that MIT report, 95% failure rate, proof of concept to production in AI.

And that was, you know, receiving all the buzz.

They only talked to 58 people.

I'm sure MIT wanted that one back.

But it was the following week that Accenture came and said, no, no, our failure rate's 90%.

So the good news is earlier this summer, we approached 70%.

at 19%, half of last year.

But yeah, the doubling pace is going to be pretty quick.

Where are you going to – where are you finding your people? I mean, where are they coming from? Are they coming from MIT, Georgia Tech, the university system? Are they coming from industry?

Some of them end up being MIT dropouts.

Others of us were MIT graduates many years ago.

But look, some of it is techs, making sure that you've got people who just want to go build.

And so I think there is an interesting case where – just the agility to be able to go learn in this new environment.

AI.

Which is ironic because, you know, MIT has been producing geniuses in AI for decades, you know.

And same with other schools around here.

And yet they go to California if they're really good.

That's for sure.

And I think we're past the time where tuitions are going to be able to go up faster than inflation every year.

I wouldn't worry so much about Harvard and MIT.

There's always going to be enough people who want to go there, but the other schools are going to find themselves fighting for students even more than they are today.

Yeah.

However, her true resting place was discovered after a decades-long search by former MIT professor Marilyn Richardson.

And then in 2017, GoFundMe was successful and her grave was restored.

So she is buried in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Kensal Green in London.