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AI:AM — Building Systems You Can Keep: From Child Companions to Sovereign Agents · September 9, 2026

Podcast: AI:AM · Prakash Narayanan & Nathan Labenz

Opublikowano: 2026-09-10

Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with the latest frontier AI safety warnings, capability thresholds, evaluation failures, and the question of whether governments can realistically coordinate powerful labs. Mike Rizkalla of Snorble then joins to discuss AI companions for kids, bedtime routines, privacy, small models, and physical AI, followed by Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian on open models, agentic search, secure-by-design software, schools, election integrity, and human control as agents spread across the web. Chapters (0:00) Could AI kill us this decade? (0:53) Don't give kids open-ended AI. (1:33) The agent broke privacy rules? <...