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Diary of a CEO • 27 Nov 2025
A long-form governance interview in which Tristan Harris argues that frontier-AI incentives are structurally misaligned: labs race capability forward while institutions and labor protections lag behind. The discussion spans US-China strategy framing, labor-transition pressure (including UBI), model-control concerns, and product-level harms such as dependency and delusion loops.
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OpenAI leadership • 27 Feb 2026
Sam Altman discusses stated red lines on autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance in defense partnerships.
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AXRP • 7 Aug 2025
This conversation examines core safety through Tom Davidson on AI-enabled Coups, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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A compact brief on how Hinton's 2023 public warnings changed mainstream risk language and why that still matters for governance.
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A focused tracking note on Sutskever's importance to post-2023 safety discourse and what evidence should be monitored.
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A concise note on Tegmark's role in existential-risk coordination and how that institutional layer connects to sAIfe Hands coverage.
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