This Week in Startups · 2026-09-14 · 1h 11m
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Quo: The Conservation Fund: CLA: Today's show: A 27-year-old Anthropic researcher quit last week warning that AI could cause human extinction, and by Friday, a caller's 76-year-old mother was texting her in a panic. Jason's answer: the labs are already shipping the safeguards Doomers say don't exist. On an all live calls episode of TWiST, learn about the AI implications Jason is actually scared of, and why it involves a terrorist cell and a thousand cheap drones. PLUS, who is liable when one AI prompts another AI into launching a meme coin, and can a 1.5-3 megawatt cannabis facility be converted into a data center? Relevant Links: Anthropic Resignee - OpenAI's Navier-Stokes claim - CNBC: Tristan Buckmaster's challenge to the claim - NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell - Composio's walkthrough of how Grok Bot actually works - Timestamps: 0:00 (Question) Jim, from the midterm Republican convention floor: is AI really going to kill us all - and is local AI the mitigation?
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