Podcast: TheZhi and Robert Wright debate whether the AI 'slowdown' is real
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-17
AI analyst TheZvi joins Robert Wright on the Nonzero podcast to discuss Dario Amodei's proposal to slow down AI—its logic and the challenges ahead. Other topics: what's inside the mind of an agentic swarm, sci-fi-free takeover scenarios, and why Google fell off the frontier.
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