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0:00 Teaser
0:35 Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report
6:56 Is scale still (mostly) all you need?
13:10 Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots”
22:00 Inside the early AI safety ecosystem
33:50 What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most
42:29 Why capability is outpacing alignment
49:25 Were Altman’s fears ever sincere?
55:34 Would pausing AI crash the economy?
1:01:13 Overtime preview: Debating China
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Jeremie Harris (Gladstone AI, Last Week in AI). Recorded October 10, 2026.
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Overtime titles:
Bob’s beef with “kumbaya.”
Will it take an AI Chernobyl to convince the skeptics?
Is China-hawkism the safest option?
The case for “organic transparency” with China.
How alignment progress could backfire.
Has China infiltrated US tech?
Breaking down Dario’s democracy bloc idea.
Overtime video:
