NEW Episode 216 · Season 1 Oct 9, 2026 · 44 min
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
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Google's Next Top Model + Will the Cybertruck Crash? + This Week in A.I.What’s Next for OpenAI + Binance Is Binanceled + A.I. Is Eating the Internet(Yet Another) Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is BackMayhem at OpenAI + Our Interview With Sam AltmanEmergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AIAn A.I. Pin Drops + YouTube’s Take on Deepfakes + A Lab-Grown ThanksgivingPersonalized GPTs Are Here + F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Competition + Mayhem at ApefestCasey Goes to the White House + The Copyright Battle Over Artificial Intelligence + HatGPTThe People vs. Meta + Marques Brownlee on YouTube and Future Tech + DALL-E 3 ArrivesPeering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell TestGoogle’s Trial Heats Up + How to Wear A.I. + It’s Our Birthday!All Gas, No Brakes in A.I. + Metaverse Update + Lessons From a Prompt EngineerBreaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News!Casey v. Kevin on US v. Google + Walter Isaacson on Two Years With Elon MuskEscape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener QuestionsThe Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPTN.Y.C. Says Airbn-bye + How Far Would You Go for a GPU? + The A.I. Songs of the SummerS.B.F Goes to Jail + Back to School with A.I. + Self-Driving Car UpdateDon't Scrape Me, Bro + The Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars + How Reddit Beat a RebellionSuperconductor Superconfusion, KOSA’s Hidden Costs and HatGPTElon's X Machina + Crypto Orbs + A Visit to Google’s Robot LabDario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix’s ‘Deep Fake Love’Help! My Boss Won’t Stop Using ChatGPTSpecial Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam MosseriIs A.I. Poisoning Itself? + Billionaire Cage Fight + Cooking With ChatGPTA.I. Beach + Vibes-Based R.T.O. + the ‘Black Mirror’ QuamputerReddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?Apple’s Face Computer + Crypto Chaos + How Teens Really Feel About Social MediaA.I.'s Inner Conflict + Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club + Hard QuestionsThe Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential RisksMr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American LifeGoogle’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle VogtBluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard QuestionsDeepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed EraHard Fork Presents: The Most Amazing – And Dangerous – Technology In the WorldInside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos UpdatesA.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone PositivityGoogle C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPTBard Fork + How to Talk So Chatbots Will ListenBONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot, or Not?GPT-4 Is Here + The Group Chat Bank Run
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