Hey everyone, welcome to your undivided attention.

This is Tristan.

And this is AISA.

Before we get into today's episode, we want to mark that there has been some huge news in the AI landscape this week.

The CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman, was fired by the company's board. And the episode you're about to hear about

open source AI models was recorded before this recent news,

which makes this conversation matter even more.

Now the story could still go a lot of different ways.

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the other co-founder might join Microsoft, but they also might not,

and this will continue to unfold over the next few days.

But what we do know for sure is that whatever happens next will have huge implications for the safe development of AI?

Okay, and now on to the episode.

What if I told you that a new technology could accelerate scientific research and make every scientist

around the world ten times as efficient. Or we could make corporations ten times more productive

and increase GDP. What if I told you that opening certain technologies could automate

the finding of consensus on polarizing topics and help drive better democratic decision-making?

At the same time, what if I told you that that same new technology also gave everyone an interactive tutor

for how to make biological weapons and work around safety controls?

Or enabled disinformation campaigns that undermined every election around the world?

And what if this scene technology shattered our ability to know what's true, causing civil wars and undermining nation states?

And yet what if I told you that not opening up this new technology to the world

risked it being owned by corporations or authoritarian governments who then had

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