Who Checks the Machines?
Episode 10: Who Checks the Machines?
Why Proving AI Is Safe May Be the Next Bottleneck
AI’s leaders asked the industry to slow down. Markets wobbled, then shrugged. But the real story may not be whether frontier AI slows—it may be what it costs to prove that it has.
In Episode 10, Tim Hardwick examines Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI, the three-step assurance framework behind it, and the divided response from the major laboratories, Europe, Washington and Beijing.
The episode adds a sixth potential constraint to the AI Supercycle: assurance, the work of…
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