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Ep. 031 - EMERGENCY EPISODE: Are We Doomed? | Jordan Nanos, Doug O'Laughlin, Max Kan, Joey Brookhart
The episode argues that AI safety and frontier pacing may increase, not decrease, compute demand because monitoring, alignment, and security are computationally expensive. The hosts also connect frontier-lab ARR to semis valuation, while warning that AI security failures, model spoofing, and rogue-agent incidents could force a much larger regulatory response.
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Ep. 031 - EMERGENCY EPISODE: Are We Doomed? | Jordan Nanos, Doug O'Laughlin, Max Kan, Joey Brookhart
The episode centers on Dario Amodei’s “pace the frontier” argument and whether AI safety work will slow or accelerate frontier compute demand. The hosts conclude that safety, monitoring, and security are themselves compute-heavy, while the biggest near-term risks look like infrastructure breaches, misuse by humans, and a highly constrained compute market.