New episode on the Information Bottleneck with Stella Biderman (@BlancheMinerva ), the Executive Director of EleutherAI. We talked a lot about the OpenAI-Hugging Face accident in which models broke out of their sandbox and were hacked. Stella's take: this was an offensive cyber operation, and frontier labs have proven they can't secure their own systems. We talked about what the alternatives are and how we can solve these problems. So why is she still one of the loudest open source advocates around? Her answer is that the real risk isn't the technology; it's corporate power with no independent scientists left to check it. Also: Chinese open models, sovereign AI, Deep Ignorance, and why HAL 9000 is a story about developers overriding users. You can find the episode on our website, YouTube, and all the apps. Would love to hear your comments!