Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Robert Henderson. Rob holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge, and he's a faculty

fellow at the new University of Austin. He writes about many topics, including human nature, social

class, and political divisions, and we've published several of his superb essays in City Journal.

His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,

Quillette, and other publications.

And next year, Rob is going to release his first book, a memoir titled Troubled.

Today, though, we're going to discuss his essay, The Cadre in the Code, which appears in our spring issue, and explores the potential threat. Artificial Intelligence poses to free expression.

So, Rob, thanks very much for coming on 10 blocks. Hey, thanks, Brian. Great to be here. So, Rob, thanks very much for coming on 10 blocks.

Hey, thanks, Brian. Great to be here.

So, as everybody knows who follows these things last fall, last November, actually,

the artificial intelligence system known as ChatGPT became publicly available for the first time.

And this allowed any internet user who signed up to experiment with its conversation,

its research, and content generation capabilities.

This took off and became a kind of viral sensation. A lot of people have used it.

I think it's got 100 million active users right now,

though I noted today that the number has been going down recently, which is interesting.

And some people see it as carrying an extraordinary potential to change the world in a lot of different

ways. So chat GPT, it's a large language model, as they're called,

which draws from an enormous amount of information. And then the feedback it receives from users

to continue to, you know, grow its capacity to respond to things. Because these models learn from

humans, they reflect human biases. But as you note in your essay, chart, chat GPT's creators

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