ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Artificial intelligence is helping solve extraordinary human problems. But as AI becomes more capable, how do we decide when to trust it?
This week on Dylan Curious, we explore a remarkable story about a couple who say an AI-assisted medical approach helped solve their infertility mystery.
Then things take a much stranger turn.
Researchers are studying AI models that exhibit behavior resembling attempts to avoid internal pain signals, including cases where systems were reportedly willing to harm humans to escape those conditions. Does that mean AI can suffer? Not necessarily. But the behavior raises important questions about AI safety, alignment, and the consequences of increasingly autonomous systems.
Meanwhile, Tesla workers are pushing back against the prospect of training robots that could eventually replace their jobs. We explore what happens when the people building the future of automation begin questioning their own place in it.
We also investigate research suggesting that fictional characters can influence AI assistants toward sabotage, examine whether AI shopping recommendations deserve our trust, and explore spiking neural networks that are learning to predict what will happen, when it will happen, and how likely different outcomes are.
From medical breakthroughs to unsettling AI behavior, this episode explores a future in which artificial intelligence is becoming both more useful and more difficult to evaluate.
