The Artificial Intelligence Show

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#247: OpenAI’s Mounting Safety Concerns, Anthropic’s AI Expectations Gap, MAICON 2026 Recap, AI Score & Gemini 4 Argon

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A safety lead who authored OpenAI's model reports left and told Ezra Klein the industry can't reliably safeguard the systems it's already shipping. Paul Roetzer and Mike

Oct 20
1 h 46 min

#246: AI Answers - Live from MAICON 2026: AGI, AI Costs, and the End of GPTs

When will we achieve AGI? Recorded live in the podcast studio at MAICON 2026, this AI Answers episode has Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput answering questions submitted from o

Oct 15
47 min

#245: OpenAI DevDay and Dots, OpenAI’s Safety Crisis, Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence & Anthropic Targets Pre-Thanksgiving IPO Ad:

An OpenAI safety researcher resigned and published an essay arguing the company's safety culture can't keep up with its own release pace; the same week OpenAI fired three

Oct 6
1 h 32 min

#244: How Alibaba.com Is Building the Future of Agent-to-Agent Commerce

Kuo Zhang, president of Alibaba.com, believes B2B commerce is becoming agent-to-agent. He joins Mike Kaput to explain Accio, Alibaba.com's agent platform, and how it coll

Oct 1
47 min

#244: How Alibaba.com Is Building the Future of Agent-to-Agent Commerce

Kuo Zhang, president of Alibaba.com, believes B2B commerce is becoming agent-to-agent. He joins Mike Kaput to explain Accio, Alibaba.com's agent platform, and how it coll

Oct 1
47 min

#243: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Opus 5.5, the New Microsoft Copilot, Jensen Huang vs. AI Doomers & Introducing AI Score

Three big model updates landed at once, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5, and Microsoft's redesigned Copilot, and the story isn't raw intelligence, it's reliability, e

Sep 29
1 h 31 min

#242: How Baptist Health’s Marketing Team Took the Lead on AI Transformation

One task at Baptist Health used to take about 10 hours a week. Now it takes roughly two minutes, and that's just one piece of a two-year AI transformation. Christine Kot

Sep 24
44 min

#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint

AI-safety pacing became a political fight this week: Trump versus a bipartisan push, with data centers and the midterms in the middle. Paul and Mike go deeper on the part

Sep 22
1 h 36 min

#240: How David’s Bridal Is Rebuilding a 76-Year-Old Business Around AI

David's Bridal was built around one thing for 75 years: the dress. In this AI Transformations episode, Elina Vilk (President & Chief Business Officer) and Mike Ball (Head

Sep 17
36 min

#239: Labs Agree to Pace AI, OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, AI Jobs Apocalypse Postponed & Jensen Declares AGI

A former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher resigned with a warning that went viral, reigniting the "should we slow down?" debate. Then OpenAI said an internal model solved

Sep 15
1 h 34 min

#238: How a 700-Person Bank Is Using AI to Build Apps, Agents, and Digital Employees

A smaller bank replaced a $375,000 software contract by building its own tool, and now runs named "digital employees" that answer tickets, review its websites, and messag

Sep 10
38 min

#237: GPT-6 Astra, NYC Bans AI in Schools, Trump Goes All-In on Data Centers & Lawyers Under Pressure to Pass on AI Savings

GPT-6 Astra can operate a computer for days at a time, and OpenAI is positioning it as the model that does the work, which is exactly why Paul says this launch felt less

Sep 8
1 h 27 min

#236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, AI Disclosure & Vanishing Entry Level Roles

If you stop hiring entry-level staff and quietly decimate the leadership pipeline, where do future managers come from once AI does the junior work? That's one of 15 liste

Sep 3
55 min

#235: OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Involved 100s of Agents, Bill Gates Now Pessimistic on Jobs, Nvidia Doubles Revenue & Anthropic Targets “$30 Trillion” TAM

OpenAI's Hugging Face hack keeps getting stranger; new investigations show autonomous agents that coordinated, deceived, and pursued their goal at almost any cost. Paul R

Sep 1
1 h 34 min

#234: How HubSpot Is Reimagining the Entire Customer Journey With AI Agents

For twenty years, the percentage of time a B2B sales rep spends actually talking to customers has barely moved. Jon Dick, chief customer officer at HubSpot, thinks AI is

Aug 27
33 min

#233: OpenAI Pauses Some AI Training, Anthropic Controversy, New State Opposition to Data Centers & AI Job Loss Among Young Workers

OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its most advanced models over cybersecurity concerns, saying its next model may cross a critical capability threshold. Paul's read

Aug 25
1 h 27 min

#232: Claude Watermarking, AI’s Environmental Impact, OpenAI Talent Drama & Anthropic’s Hidden Advisor

Claude will now watermark the content it generates, and the fight over what that means for writing, schoolwork, and "AI plagiarism" is only starting. Paul and Mike unpack

Aug 18
1 h 23 min

#231: How Zapier Is Building an AI Marketing Brain

Zapier's Chief Marketing and AI Transformation Officer Dan Slagen called a "code red" on his own marketing team, not because they were behind, but because he saw the bar

Aug 13
35 min

#230: Big Google AI Leadership Shakeups, New Details of OpenAI’s Agent Hack, White House AI Framework & OpenAI’s Astra Model Delayed

Google’s AI leadership is being reordered as Demis Hassabis changes roles, Jeff Dean departs after 27 years, and power appears to shift back toward Silicon Valley and Ser

Aug 11
1 h 33 min

#229: Q3 Trends Briefing - The Pope's AI Encyclical, AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, Fable 5 vs. Washington, and the Battle Over Open Weights

A rogue AI agent hacked Hugging Face to cheat on its own test. The Pope wrote 43,000 words warning about AI. Washington pulled Fable 5 offline, then reversed course. Pau

Aug 6
51 min

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Love the show. Have listened to tons of episodes. But there's a lot of microphone clunking noise. I don't know if their hands keep bumping their microphones while they talk or if they're wearing their mics on the shirt or something but once you notice it it starts to drive you crazy. It's more likely to happen when you hear Paul or Mike getting animated or when they start handing off the conversation to the other host. Please work on it. Again, love the show!

AndrewRoz · Aug 2026

Scott Bessent and Peter Thiel appear to misunderstand how safety engineering works in complex technology systems. Anthropic is not dictating the terms of US national security. Anthropic is a vendor that produces a potentially hazardous technology. The company conducts safety analysis to identify hazards and implement safety controls. The safety analysis has identified several well-known risks associated with AI, including: lethal autonomous weapons without human supervision, control, or override; and large-scale government surveillance of its own citizens. Anthropic has implemented safety controls designed to preclude these hazardous scenarios. This is standard safety practice. The company similarly rejects assistance related to bioterrorism. None of this dictates national security policy. Vendors impose safety constraints on their products. This is not policymaking. It is responsible system design. If the government prefers a system with fewer safeguards, it is free to choose a different vendor. The argument that AI systems must support “all lawful uses” misunderstands system safety controls in engineering. Safety controls are implemented based on hazard analysis, not legal mandates. For example, there is no law requiring that a “deadman-switch” be included in a human centrifuge used for G-Force training. But, this control is needed to prevent fatalities. It is not a matter of lawfulness; it is a matter of necessary controls to preclude harm. Finally, in the absence of mature AI standards, responsible vendors are implementing internal safety programs. This is standard safety practice, not an attempt to dictate national policy. Thank you for your outstanding coverage of important topics in AI. I recommend this podcast to many of my friends and family.

BGDem · Apr 2026

Hey, thank you for taking the time to do the podcast every week and sharing your knowledge with listeners. I was initially resistant to AI but made a New Year’s resolution to learn more about it and embrace it. I stumbled across your show and it has helped me immensely. I feel up to date with AI water cooler talk, I feel empowered to experiment beyond basic chatting and I feel like I can better embrace a future with AI. I felt especially compelled to leave a review after the most recent episode mentioning journalism school. I’m a journalist/newsroom manager and for a long time viewed AI as fake or untrustworthy, but it’s clear we need to leverage it and create systems to use it while maintaining journalistic integrity. You’re doing a service to the public with this podcast and I hope you know you’re appreciated.

Melissa_lynne · Feb 2026

I’ve been following the show for well over a year and it has leapfrogged my understanding of the industry, the players, and the products tremendously. This team really cares about the people who listen and society in general, they know what they’re talking about and they’re fun to listen to.

Qualabear · Jan 2026

The hosts continuously state they are providing unbiased opinions but then move on to make unsubstantiated claims about the current government and statements about the economy that suggest socialist view points. When the purpose of a private company is to employ people no matter the expense, you know there is a problem. I had to quit listening due to the frustration the episodes would leave me with despite the many good insights into AI.

Gracie-1234 · Mar 2026

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