9/29/26: OpenAI Pulls Model Over Safety Concerns, Morning Joe Admits Bibi Knew Oct 7 Was Coming, DraftKings VIP For Undercover Addicts

What you'll learn

• 1 (01:44) **Introduction of Garrison Lovely and His Book** - Hosts welcome Garrison Lovely, journalist and author of *Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It*, which is flying off shelves.
• 2 (02:42) **OpenAI Scraps Model Release and Halts Training** - OpenAI pulls a new model over safety issues and stops all internal training, raising questions about the full story behind their AI development.
• 3 (04:37) **Top Researchers Call for Oversight of Self-Improving AI** - A paper by chief scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warns that automating AI research could trigger an "intelligence explosion," compressing years of progress into months.
• 4 (07:04) **The Book's Core Argument: Taking AI Companies at Their Word** - Garrison argues that AI companies openly state their goal is to replace all human labor to justify trillions in valuations, and we should not allow this to happen.
• 5 (09:23) **Debating the Timeline of Job Displacement** - Garrison addresses skepticism that AI hasn't caused mass unemployment yet, arguing that the best forecasters from the AI safety community have consistently underrated AI progress.
• 6 (11:20) **Responding to David Sacks' Criticism of "Doomer" Predictions** - Garrison rebuts Sacks' claim that AI job loss predictions were a hoax, arguing the 1-5 year window is still open and that capabilities are accelerating.
• 7 (14:39) **The Radiologist Example: Why Technical Skill Doesn't Equal Job Replacement** - Garrison explains that Geoffrey Hinton's famous prediction that AI would replace radiologists was wrong because it mistook a narrow technical task for the full scope of the job.

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