Tyler Cowen guest-hosts NYT podcast, interviews Dwarkesh Patel on what frontier labs know
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-15
Tyler Cowen guest-hosts the NYT podcast Interesting Times for a long-form interview with Dwarkesh Patel on "What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don't." Topics include why researchers are resigning, whether AI could become conscious, and Patel's view of San Francisco's AI scene and the road to AGI. An edited transcript is published on NYT.
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