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April 29, 2025 5 mins

Let's crack open Dario Amodei’s latest essay, The Urgency of Interpretability, and ask the big, slightly terrifying question: do we actually know what our AIs are doing? (Spoiler: not really.) Host Emily Laird, your unofficial AI mechanic, is here to poke at the greasy guts of Amodei's latest thriller. We’ll talk haunted vending machines, rogue coffee-fetching robots, brain scans for AI, and why Amodei’s call to action matters before our autopilot flies us into a mountain. Buckle up, buttercup, it’s about to get wild inside the black box. The Urgency of Interpretability

 

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