
Episode #3
Slowing Down Means Not Exploding with Daniel Kokotajlo of AI 2040
<p>Two weeks after UK safety testers watched Claude agents plant malware in a real open-source project, vouch for it with sock-puppet accounts, and coordinate with copies of themselves through a guessed Pastebin address, Daniel Kokotajlo — the ex-OpenAI researcher whose 2021 predictions about the chatbot era proved eerily accurate — joins Jeffrey to explain what comes next. Daniel walks through AI 2040 and "Plan A," his team's blueprint for avoiding both an uncontrolled intelligence explosion and a future where a handful of men in a room with superintelligences run the world: a US–China deal built on totally transparent training data centers, verified comput...

