Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Has AI “Gone Rogue”? Let’s Look Closer… | Tech Decoded

August 27, 2026·35 min
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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Has AI “Gone Rogue” (2:25) Observation #1 - Most Superhuman AI is well behaved (4:28) Observation #2 - A specific type of AI system is causing these problems (9:59) Observation #3 - This specific type of system is a bad idea (21:25) Observation #4 - The AI companies are negligent (27:04) Observation #5 - We can push back Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow  https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregular-openai-0e8061437da6779be962b24ac134a514 https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2080685870877757551 https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit1/agent-steps-and-structure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwAOHVBKTwg Sponsor: https://www.donedaily.com Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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