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AI Summer

by Timothy B. Lee

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Garrison Lovely on the case for banning superintelligence

October 19, 2026 · 56 min

I talked to Garrison Lovely, author of the new book Obsolete, about his case that we shouldn’t just slow down AGI. We should stop building it. We started with the fights inside the left, where Lovely has spent a lot of time arguing with Ed…
Jasmine Sun on the data center backlash

September 8, 2026 · 56 min

Nothing about data centers changed much this year — except the country’s mood. To find out why, the independent journalist Jasmine Sun traveled to the sites of proposed and completed data centers in Wisconsin and Michigan. The best clue…
Steven Adler on the AI industry’s rogue agent crisis

August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

Steven Adler spent four years inside OpenAI working on safety before leaving to co-found Guidelight, a nonprofit pushing for stronger AI controls. On Tuesday, the group published a new scorecard rating the safety practices of leading AI…
Josh Saxe on hardening the Internet after the Hugging Face attack

July 30, 2026 · 59 min

I invited Joshua Saxe, a former black-hat hacker who led AI security efforts at Meta, to break down last week’s incident in which a swarm of OpenAI models escaped their testing sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The attack began as routine…
Robert Wright on the global implications of powerful AI

June 22, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

Robert Wright, author of the Nonzero newsletter and host of the Nonzero podcast, is a veteran journalist who interviewed Geoffrey Hinton about neural networks back in 1983. He joined the podcast to talk about his new book The God Test…

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Alan Rozenshtein on Friday's shocking shutdown of Claude Fable 5

June 15, 2026 · 56 min

Last night, I called University of Minnesota law professor Alan Rozenshtein and asked him to help me decode the Commerce Department’s surprise decision to impose export controls on Anthropic’s Claude models. Late on Friday, the Commerce…
James Grimmelmann explains how AI is changing copyright

June 11, 2026 · 54 min

I’m organizing a happy hour on June 23 for listeners of AI Summer and readers of my newsletter, Understanding AI. It’ll run from 5:30 to 8:00pm at The Crown & Crow in Washington DC. I will be there, along with past guests Kai Williams and…
Andy Masley on the data center backlash

June 2, 2026 · 58 min

Over seven years teaching high school physics, Andy Masley learned how to explain abstract quantities like watt-hours in an accessible way. That skill has made him one of the most effective critics of the growing environmental panic over…
Sophia Tung on the state of autonomous vehicles

May 25, 2026 · 54 min

I don’t know anyone who has ridden in more different kinds of robotaxis than Sophia Tung. A YouTuber and the author of the RideAI newsletter, she is one of the most knowledgeable experts on the contemporary autonomous vehicle sector. She…
Divyansh Kaushik on the robotics race between China and the US

May 13, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

I talk to Divyansh Kaushik, a Carnegie Mellon machine learning PhD turned national-security advisor at Beacon Global Strategies, about the robotics race between the US and China and why winning the race matters for national security. We…
Alex Imas explains why AI (probably) won't put everyone out of work

April 29, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

Alex Imas is an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School who argues that the most important thing about an AI-saturated economy won’t be what machines can produce—it’ll be what humans still want from each other. Imas’s central…
Sayash Kapoor on Claude Mythos as normal technology

April 13, 2026 · 58 min

Last week Anthropic stunned the AI world by announcing Claude Mythos Preview—and then refusing to release it. Princeton’s Sayash Kapoor, co-author of the newsletter AI as Normal Technology, joins Tim and Kai Williams to make sense of the…