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Greg and Adam discuss the implications of the OpenAI hack on state AI regulations and the role of Chinese AI technology.

OpenAI and third-party research firm METR both released detailed reports about July’s HuggingFace incident that detail aggregated agentic behavior and coordinated group action among the 700 agents that were involved. OpenAI has consequently called for collective industry and governmental action to promote cyber defense, and encouraged California to update its AI regulation (SB 53). Greg and Adam discuss the differences between existing state AI laws in California, New York, Illinois, a...

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Host: Greg Allen

Guest: Adam

Topics covered

• AI regulation
• cyber defense
• state laws
• OpenAI
• HuggingFace incident
• Chinese AI

Keywords

• OpenAI
• HuggingFace
• AI regulation
• cyber defense
• California
• New York
• Illinois
• Chinese AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, METR

Books & works: SB 53

Places: California, New York, Illinois

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