The Intelligence Horizon

Nathan Labenz (Host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast) joins The Intelligence Horizon to make the case that, with or without major algorithmic breakthroughs, we already have enough evidence to conclude that AI is going to completely transform the economy and geopolitical landscape in the coming years. From there, we dig into one of the strangest features of the current moment: despite rapid capa...

Zoë Hitzig (Research Scientist at OpenAI and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows) recently made headlines with her New York Times piece criticizing OpenAI’s corporate incentive structure and raising broader questions about how AI companies should be governed. Before that piece reached mainstream, we sat down with her to explore where incentives can diverge between companies and users,...

Thomas Woodside (Co-Founder & Senior Policy Advisor at the Secure AI Project, and a lead advocate for California’s SB 53) joins The Intelligence Horizon Podcast to break down what SB 53 actually does and what it signals about where AI regulation is headed. We cover the bill’s core requirements, the logic behind them, and how they aim to reduce catastrophic risk from frontier models. We also si...

In this episode, Thomas Larsen of the AI Futures Project joins us to dissect the public's reaction to the widely influential paper "AI 2027," which he co-authored, and makes the case that superintelligent AI is highly likely within our lifetimes — and plausibly imminent in the next few years. Thomas also lays out why he’s pessimistic that risks from misaligned and misused AI will be handled in tim...