Machine Learning Street Talk · 2026-05-31 · 1h 21m
Brad Carson was the Army's General Counsel, served two terms in Congress and was Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. He now heads Americans for Responsible Innovation, the AI-policy advocacy group he co-founded. Keith Duggar spends roughly eighty minutes pushing back. SPONSOR: - Cyber Fund built the Monastery to help founders ship products that were impossible a year ago. Applications for Batch 1 are now open. Apply now: - Carson's whole case rests on one line: the genie is not out of the bottle. We have pulled dangerous tech back before. Asilomar halted recombinant DNA in 1975, and the West still controls the chips AI runs on. Calling it unstoppable, he says, is the most dangerous idea in the room. Then Keith drags him somewhere darker. A Palantir heat map scores you 0.73 on whether you are a combatant, and a strike follows. The model is wrong some accepted share of the time, and when it is, nobody answers for it. You cannot court-martial a model, and not even the interpretability researchers can say why it picked you.
The Benchmark With No Instructions - ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)85 / 100The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas AhleHe won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John JumperIntelligence is collective, not artificial - Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria) The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating - Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]