Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I.

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Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes

This week, there’s a new blockbuster Elizabeth Holmes documentary out, and we’ve assembled an expert panel to discuss the movie and what Holmes means to the tech world of today. Max Read is joined by John Carreyrou, who, through his investigative reporting for The Wall Street Jou ...  Show more

 . 1h 7min
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals

This week, Max Read talks to the Times religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias, the tech reporter Erin Griffith and the opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about Anthropic’s private meetings with religious scholars on A.I. consciousness and how to make Claude “good,” its differences ...  Show more

 . 44min 20sec

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