Megan McArdle
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Sep 19, 2026
Joe GettyHOST
... all this stuff recently, and that was so attractive to me.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
Megan McArdle, another home run hitter.
Joe GettyHOST
S-
Jack ArmstrongHOST
Love her
Megan McArdleHOST
Welcome to Reasonably Optimistic.
Megan McArdleHOST
I'm Megan McArdle.
Megan McArdleHOST
By now, you've definitely heard about flock cameras, right? You know, those little solar-powered cameras that are perched on poles besides the roads and highways? The ones everyone's yelling about on social media? But even if you haven't heard of them, there's a good chance you've driven past one without even realizing it.
Megan McArdleHOST
Flock cameras photograph passing cars, read their license plates, and record when and where they were spotted.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
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Megan McArdle.
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On the inadequacy of current legal frameworks.
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A refutation.
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Zvi MowshowitzHOST
I mean, he's mostly saying that because of his deficit in other capabilities and because it sounds good to say.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
But yes, alignment is a major differentiator, and labs continue to massively underinvest in alignment, even from a pure myopic self-interest perspective.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Megan McArdle, on the inadequacy of current legal frameworks.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Libertarians who take their principles seriously will realize that current law does not work for AIs and the risks they bring, even if you don't think the stakes are existential.
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Megan McArdle on the inadequacy of current legal frameworks.
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Libertarians who take their principles seriously will realize that current law does not work for AIs and the risks they bring, even if you don't think the stakes are existential.
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No, you can't use existing product liability frameworks for things with minds of their own that will be as smart or smarter than ours.
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This happens to double as a strong refutation of Zuckerberg.
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Megan McArdle.
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I think one of the things people are struggling with is that the precise worry AI companies have a technology that has developed, in some sense, awareness and volition is a poor fit for existing safety and liability frameworks.
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Megan McArdle on the inadequacy of current legal frameworks.
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Libertarians who take their principles seriously will realize that current law does not work for AIs and the risks they bring, even if you don't think the stakes are existential.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
No, you can't use existing product liability frameworks for things with minds of their own that will be as smart or smarter than ours.
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This happens to double as a strong refutation of Zuckerberg.
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Megan McArdle.
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I think one of the things people are struggling with is that the precise worry AI companies have a technology that has developed, in some sense, awareness and volition is a poor fit for existing safety and liability frameworks.
Megan McArdleHOST
Welcome to Reasonably Optimistic.
Megan McArdleHOST
I'm Megan McArdle.
Megan McArdleHOST
It sounded like the plot of a science fiction movie.
Megan McArdleHOST
Inside a secure digital laboratory, somewhere deep in the heart of Silicon Valley, thousands of AI agents are working independently on a series of assignments.
Joe GettyHOST
the fact she was attractive and an AI genius.
Joe GettyHOST
Megan McArdle, another home run hitter.
Joe GettyHOST
Love her.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
So much more than Cindy Sweeney doing her thing.
Joe GettyHOST
the fact she was attractive and an AI genius.
Joe GettyHOST
Megan McArdle, another home run hitter, lover.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
So much more than Cindy Sweeney doing her thing.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
And I don't know how smart she is or whatever, but whatever.
Will KabackHOST
Amadei wants evaluators with desks, badges, and company laptops inside the firms they sit in judgment of, and he wants Congress to make that law for everybody.
Will KabackHOST
Before any of it gets written into the United States Code, somebody in a hearing room ought to ask, who hired the man wearing the badge? In the Washington Post, Megan McArdle wrote, don't rely on treaties to stop the murder bots.
Will KabackHOST
it seems safe to say that the major AI CEOs are spooked by their own creations.
Will KabackHOST
At minimum, they were afraid that within the next year, AI swarms could, as Amadei put it, become, quote, capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet, end quote, that would cause enormous economic damage.
Josh BarroHOST
So I think this is, you know, th- this is a, a cross-ideological thing that's going out in all kinds of media.
Ben DreyfussHOST
But I, I'm just curious because, Megan, you, you've reported on this and, like, uh, written about it.
Ben DreyfussHOST
And I just think that once they say this, this thing that is so, so extreme that really is asteroid hits Earth extreme, th- then it, it naturally invites this question of like how do you, what are the mechanics here? How is this AI actually gonna kill me? Not just be bad, but it's gonna not just kill some people, it's gonna kill me.
Megan McArdleHOST
Yeah.
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Josh BarroHOST
[laughs]
Megan McArdleHOST
Like, have you ever heard an argument? Have you seen how many people can get so embedded in a bad argument that they will start, like, advocating murdering their enemies because otherwise they would have to admit they're wrong? This is not gonna happen.
Josh BarroHOST
Wait, Megan, y- you said if the AI becomes sentient, then it should have rights.
Josh BarroHOST
Are you open to the idea that the AI can become sentient?
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