AI:AM — Soft Robotics: How Materials Sense and Adapt · September 4, 2026

Podcast: AI:AM · Prakash Narayanan & Nathan Labenz

Opublikowano: 2026-09-04

Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz are joined by Timothy Lee and Dr. Jean Nehme for a wide-ranging conversation about GPT-6 safety restrictions, hidden reasoning, rogue agents, robot reliability, and the bottlenecks in AI-assisted coding and robotics. The episode then turns to soft robotics, biology-inspired materials, and why future physical AI may move beyond the humanoid form before closing on AI regulation, finance, and tail risk. Chapters (0:00) Can AI hide its reasoning? (0:25) Humanoids can fall in homes. (1:17) Robot hands are the bottleneck. (1:52) AI takeover needs no robots. (2:23) The...