#247: OpenAI’s Mounting Safety Concerns, Anthropic’s AI Expectations Gap, MAICON 2026 Recap, AI Score & Gemini 4 Argon
From The Artificial Intelligence Show · 01:46:02
Show by Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput
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 Kaput unpack that interview, OpenAI's fired safety researchers, and reporting that labs expect a catastrophic AI incident within a year.Then: Anthropic's new data on its own AI-run workforce, a MAICON 2026 recap, fresh interpretability research, OpenAI's contested math-proof release, Google's Gemini Argon, and micro1's $1B plan to buy how businesses actually work.AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here.Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links hereTimestamps:00:00:00 — Intro00:05:48 — AI-Pulse Survey00:07:11 — OpenAI's Mounting Safety Concerns00:25:09 — The AI Expectations Gap00:47:24 — MAICON 2026 Recap01:02:51 — Introducing The AI Transformation Blueprint and AI Score01:08:48 — An Interpretability Breakthrough?01:13:17 — OpenAI's Math Reckoning01:18:31 — The Super Intelligence Rebrand01:22:21 — Google Releases Gemini Argon (and “Gemini agent”)01:26:57 — micro1 Is Buying Enterprise Data, Here's Why01:31:53 — AI Use Case Spotlight01:38:08 — AI Product and Funding UpdatesThis episode is supported by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for frontier technology:“Scaling Out Superintelligence” Vijoy Pandey, January 2026. The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols. Internet of Cognition Interactive Demo Clickable walkthrough showing per-agent activity, intent, context, and collective reasoning across a multi-agent SRE system.This episode is also brought to you by the MAICON 2026 On-Demand. Couldn’t make it to Cleveland, or want to rewatch? The MAICON 2026 On-Demand bundle gives you more than two dozen recorded main-stage and featured sessions (12+ hours) from this year’s Marketing AI Conference, ready to watch on your own schedule. Grab it at MAICON.AIVisit our websiteReceive our weekly newsletterJoin our community:Slack CommunityLinkedInTwitterInstagramFacebookYouTubeLooking for content and resources?Register for a free webinarCome to our next Marketing AI ConferenceEnroll in our AI Academy
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