Hard Fork
A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
May 15, 20261h 7m · 13,973 words
Show notes
This week, between the president’s negotiations in China and a potential executive order, we discuss why the Trump administration seems to be changing its tune on A.I. safety. Then, Nikesh Arora, chief executive of Palo Alto Networks, the largest cybersecurity company in the world, gives us a firsthand account of where we stand in the race to secure the internet.
Highlighted moments
the Trump administration's view of AI just did not survive contact with reality
“the issue of AI safety has become polarized in the way that it did over the past couple of years, that sort of caring about safety, talking about safety became sort of like vaguely woke coded.”
“It's like if they put U2's Songs of Innocence on your phone, but it just outed you to your family.”
“it's very hard to run a successful company without a lot of executives saying a bunch of really stupid things and writing them down.”
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