2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

AI in 2025, going into 2026

15 hrs ago • daniel bashir

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November 2025

Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems

How do we develop AI systems reflective of human values? How do we determine those values?

Nov 26, 2025 • daniel bashir

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December 2024

2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

all the (AI) news that's fit to print (record).

Dec 26, 2024 • daniel bashir

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1:48:43

Philip Goff: Panpsychism as a Theory of Consciousness

On phenomenal transparency, physicalism vs. anti-physicalism, hybrid cosmopsychism and its assumptions

Dec 12, 2024 • daniel bashir

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November 2024

Some Changes at The Gradient

How we're scaling back a bit to keep things sustainable

Nov 21, 2024 • daniel bashir, Hugh Zhang, and Andrey Kurenkov

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October 2024

Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models

On grounding, language and the world, agents, and world models.

Oct 10, 2024 • daniel bashir

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1:52:42

September 2024

Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents

On things that are not what they seem; and reflections on the Longform Podcast.

Sep 26, 2024 • daniel bashir

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1:19:58

Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment

On distinctions between fields, technological determinism, disability and AI, and why generative AI research needs more humanism.

Sep 12, 2024 • daniel bashir

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1:37:44

Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI

On provably safe and beneficial AI and the UK's new research funding agency.

Sep 5, 2024 • daniel bashir

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1:20:50

August 2024

Clive Thompson: Tales of Technology

On writing about the climate, theories of change, the anthropology of technologists, and where AI might be going.

Aug 29, 2024 • daniel bashir

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2:27:34

Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit

On how we use physical representations of thought to learn and communicate, cognitive tools' benefits and risks, and science as process.

Aug 22, 2024 • daniel bashir

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1:32:38

L.M. Sacasas: The Questions Concerning Technology

On contingency, our narratives about and engagement with technology, and what it is to be human.

Aug 15, 2024 • daniel bashir

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