The Glitchatorio
30-minute introductions to some of the trickiest issues around AI today, such as:
- The alignment problem
- Questions of LLM consciousness
- AI and animal welfare
- Scheming and hallucinations
The Glitchatorio is a podcast about the aspects of AI that don't fit neatly into marketing messages or notions of technology-as-destiny. We look into the failure modes, emergent mysteries and unexpected behaviors of artificial intelligence that baffle even the experts. You'll hear from technical researchers, data scientists and machine learning experts, as well as psychologists, philosophers and others whose work intersects with AI.
Most Glitchatorio episodes follow the standard podcast interview format. Sometimes these episodes alternate with fictional audio skits or personal voice notes.
The voices, music and audio effects you hear on The Glitchatorio are all recorded or composed by the Witch of Glitch; they are not AI-generated.
The Glitchatorio
5 Big Questions
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- Is AI still an experimental technology?
- What would real alignment look like?
- What are the key pro & contra philosophical views on AI consciousness?
- How would an AGI economy work?
- And finally, how can we make sure AI goes well for animals?
In this episode, we're listening to unreleased material from previous episodes (featuring short takes on each of these questions from the following guests, in the same order as above:
- Ihor Kendiukhov, AI safety researcher - "What We Want"
- Scott Blain, computational neuroscientist - "Dreaming or Scheming"
- Jakub Mihalik, philosopher - "What it's like to be an AI"
- Lili M., AI tool tester - "Who's the tool?"
- Max Taylor, animal charity researcher - "Animal in the Loop"
Plus some new music !