"I think in 24 months, we won't be talking about safety anymore. It will be just abundantly clear these things (AVs) are literally 4x safer than humans"
- Jcal on This Week in AI
Dwarkesh's 'agent civilizations' blog post has divided the internet. Is this a helpful and methodical look behind the curtain at the OpenAI/Hugging Face breach? Or is this more of a hysterical AI Doomerism that will ultimately be used to make the case for banning data centers? Or BOTH? Plus, an electric plane that only needs $5 to fill up its battery, why rich founders should pick up a side quest, and the Bittensor subnet that's more effective than Fable 5 at sniffing out vulnerabilities."
0:00 Guest introductions
2:58 OpenClaw 2.0
5:11 "Agents ARE AI"
7:27 Billy: OpenClaw is still too technical for business users
9:00 Slack Code, and collaborative prompting
10:40 Multi-agent orchestration and Stripe's "minions"
14:13 Slack's moat, switching costs, and the Salesforce rebound
15:11 Jason's "Oracle": a heads-up display for the whole company
18:42 The Hugging Face breach: who's responsible when agents go rogue?
19:42 Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute — local models on your Mac
21:39 Why unmetered local tokens change corporate behavior
26:57 Gatik's Autonomous Vehicle AI Stack
32:22 Jason's Tesla FSD stories
34:05 Are AV companies being pushed to move too fast?
41:38 Trucking is a "have to have," robotaxis are a "nice to have"
42:36 Jason's fix: a safety driver for the first million rides
46:50 Why physical AI's adoption curve runs in decades
52:21 Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS), explained
1:06:27 How Jason got onion rings on the menu at Buck's of Woodside
1:09:05 AI detectors under fire: Pangram, MIT, and the handwritten diary
1:15:20 Why AI is "very mid" at writing (it learned from the average)
1:17:11 The Orin Kerr test: Pangram catches Claude writing as Kerr
1:28:35 Micro Duck and designing robots with Claude
1:29:42 Phil Kaplan's $14 custom circuit boards
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