Season 4Episode 7
· 00:17:10
Everyone says they want safe AI.No company wants to move too fast. No country wants to lose control. No researcher wants to build something they do not understand.But nobody wants to be second.In this episode of Decoded: AI for Everyone, we explore the race trap: why competitive pressure changes AI risk, and why slowing AI down is harder than it sounds.Following on from the previous episode, S4E6, on AI acceleration, this episode looks at what happens when companies, countries and other actors all know caution is sensible but still fear falling behind.We explore frontier AI competition, national rivalry, safety trade-offs, the OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident, reward hacking, Pacing the Frontier, and the harder question behind AI slowdown: who slows down, who verifies it, and what happens if someone does not?This is not an argument against pacing AI.It is an argument for taking pacing seriously.Because slowing down is not just a pause button. It is a trust problem, a verification problem, a security problem and an enforcement problem.Once the race begins, caution only works if it survives the race.Resources: Decoded-Podcast.com/resources/s4e7More AI resources: PromptEngineeringCookbook.com
This is Decoded, AI for Everyone, the podcast that makes sense of artificial intelligence. Not just in your pocket, but in your work, your choices, your creativity, and your everyday life. I'm Joel Leslie. I work in AI research, AI governance, AI cybersecurity, and AI real-world adoption, helping organisations better understand how to use these systems safely, effectively, and without creating future risk. On this show, I take those ideas and bring them back to everyday life, so AI feels less confusing, less distant, and a lot more useful for everyone. Let's take a look. Everyone says they …
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