The Novelty Boundary – Why History Can't Save Us From Agentic AI
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Humanity has survived exploding boilers, nuclear close-calls, and recombinant DNA panics, but can past governance models withstand agentic AI? Host Will tests frontier AI against four historical technology inflection points—steam power, nuclear weapons, early cybernetics, and recombinant DNA—to introduce the "Novelty Boundary Test." Discover why agentic autonomy, deceptive alignment, interpretability deficits, and digital scalability invalidate traditional trial-and-error safety regulation.
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- Cold Open & Intro: The 1975 Asilomar Conference, the…
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