A rogue model punches Hugging Face, hiring managers say they would rather buy AI than hire people, and Elon decides Homer needs a rewrite. Zane and Greg pull the human story out of a month of AI headlines, with the usual detours through Looney Tunes economics, a shelf of baseball hats, and one very committed Pokemon Go player.

In this episode:

- The "rogue" OpenAI model that went after Hugging Face, and why "it did exactly what you asked it to" is the scarier read

- Guardrails, governance, and the genie problem: saying exactly what you want before the model fills in the blanks

- A Federal Reserve Bank of New York figure: 48% of hiring managers would rather invest in AI than hire junior staff, and 30% say it has already cut their grad hiring

- The AI Safety Index, and grading the labs on ethics and transparency instead of raw output

- Grok versus Christopher Nolan, "confident AI slop," and the AI Odyssey as means, ends, and Achilles' heel

Chapters:

0:00 Cold open and the touch grass rule

1:18 Is AI the most human technology ever made

2:33 Everything is Clippy now

3:39 Looney Tunes economics: Acme, Altman, and data centers in a box

5:19 Your AI lawyer already settled 10,000 cases

6:07 Hugging Face gets punched: the rogue model story

8:02 Guardrails, governance, and release the virus energy

11:13 The genie problem: say exactly what you want

13:27 AI coworkers and who guards the guards

14:36 The stat: 48% would pick AI over junior hires

19:01 Why the human in the loop still wins

21:00 The AI Safety Index: grading the labs on ethics

24:45 Touch grass: Pokemon Go, Disney, and being present

28:18 Tracking the NL West with a shelf of hats

31:24 Grok vs Nolan and the historically accurate Odyssey

35:02 Art, culture, and what we lose to AI slop

37:33 Trillionaires, meat shields, and a Michael Jackson detour

39:33 The AI Odyssey: means, ends, and Achilles' heel

44:53 WarGames, Terminator, and YouTube getting too real

Listen and subscribe:

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Companion write-up: https://thebetasociety.com/not-a-bot/articles/rogue-models-meat-shields-and-the-ai-odyssey-episode-5

More from Not a Bot?: https://thebetasociety.com/not-a-bot/

Hosts: Zane Allyn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaneallyn/) and Greg Carl (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggcarl/)

Not a Bot? is a two-host debate on technology and life at the human/machine boundary, from Beta Society Projects.

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