Aalok Mehta
Director, Wadhwani AI Center, CSIS · Director, Wadhwani AI Center
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- Director, Wadhwani AI Center, Center for Strategic and International Studiessource
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“I think it's better not to attribute something to maliciousness when there's a simpler more reasonable explanation, and I think in this case the most likely explanation is that this is an artifact of something it was trained on.”
“right now the way this bill was rolled out and the response they're getting seems to indicate that they haven't necessarily figured out how to balance those things.”
“it's very unusual I think for a company to want to go public and at the same time say something like there's a risk that our product will kill all human beings on the planet.”
In the Base
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AI Cyber Incidents Pile Up + Anthropic’s Draft Safety Bill
In a 47-minute episode, two CSIS researchers discuss recent AI-enabled cyberattacks, a Cohere report on a Qwen model, AI-found PHP vulnerabilities, Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, Anthropic's leaked draft safety bill and its IPO prospectus.
Unpacking the Data Center Backlash with Jasmine Sun
According to the episode description, Aalok Mehta and writer Jasmine Sun discuss the backlash to AI data centers and its possible effect on November's vote. The description cites polls showing seven in 10 Americans oppose local construction.