Podcast: Is GPT-6 Astra AGI? Labenz Debates OpenAI's Pause and Human Control
The Cognitive Revolution · rss · 2026-09-12
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan's AI:AM highlights examine whether GPT-6 Astra qualifies as AGI, its "reassure and mislead" behavior patterns, and OpenAI's pause and pacing agreements. Guests including Ksenia Se and Raffi Krikorian cover world models, defensive cybersecurity infrastructure, children's tech, US-China competition, and maintaining human control over technocapitalism. 100 minutes of frontier AI governance debate.
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