AI@70 Episode 4 “AI Comes Home”

AI models get ‘trained’ inside massive data centres, using some of the most powerful computers ever built. We’ve now learned how to make those models small enough to run on a laptop. Seventy years after it all kicked off, AI comes home.

Produced with the help of Myrtle and Pine.

RNZ “Nine to Noon” – Anthropic vs. the Department of War

Leading AI firm Anthropic drew two red lines on their work with the newly renamed US ‘Department of War’: No mass surveillance of Americans, and no autonomous weapons. USA Secretary of Defense Pete Hesgeth threatened to declare Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’ (basically, an enemy of the state) unless they erased those red lines by 5.01pm on Friday 27 February. Anthropic held fast – and that’s changed the politics of AI. Plus: Let the app know you’re not dead!

Produced with Ampel.