The Economics of Work In An Age of AI
The episode centered on what happens to the economics of work as AI becomes capable of doing more of it. Anthropic’s new Economic Scenarios Explorer provided the starting point, allowing users to mode...
10 Sep 1h 6min
10,000 AI Agents Attack One Problem
The episode opened with the dispute surrounding OpenAI’s newly announced mathematical result and what may be the more important story behind it. Tristan Buckmaster of NYU and Anthropic researcher Leve...
9 Sep 1h 3min
Our Real Atlas Builds and Use Cases
The episode moved quickly from theory to practical experience with GPT-6 Astra. After revisiting OpenAI’s “Alien Mind” paper and the conundrum of using more powerful AI to monitor frontier systems, th...
8 Sep 1h 5min
Can We Truly Control The Alien Mind?
The episode focused heavily on GPT-6 Astra and a new essay from OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki describing advanced AI systems as increasingly alien forms of intelligence that humans grow throug...
7 Sep 54min
The Democratic Bandwidth Conundrum
Public participation has always contained a hidden constraint: time.Writing a serious response to a tax rule, zoning plan, environmental permit, school policy, or agency proposal takes hours. Filing r...
5 Sep 28min
Is GPT-6 Astra the Biggest AI Leap Yet?
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra dominated the episode after its unusual rollout. The hosts discussed access, OpenAI’s plan to bring Astra to paid users, and why some cybersecurity users may receive capabilities ...
4 Sep 1h 1min
Will Stores Use AI to Charge You More?
The episode opened with the downside of increasingly capable AI harnesses. OpenClaw 2.0 made setup easier, but some self-hosted users reported broken gateways, failed migrations and unusable systems a...
3 Sep 1h 3min
Is Fable 5.1 Good Enough to Make You Leave Codex?
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 dominated the first half of the episode. Beth and Andy compared its higher output costs with improved caching, stronger benchmark performance and better agentic task results. The...
2 Sep 58min
