What podcasts say about Alexander Wissner-Gross

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What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said on podcasts

356 statements · 225 positive · 87 negative · 12 mixed · 32 neutral

on Opus 5.5PositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Opus 5.5 can generate extended space scenes from prompts.
“you could ask Opus 5.5, create an endless space scene.”
Listen at 8:21
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on AI humor generationPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI humor generation was solved previously.
“Humor was solved a while ago.”
Listen at 8:57
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Quant trading with Cerebras enginesNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Ultra-fast AI inference may make competing with quant firms hopeless.
“it's hopeless to compete with quant firms that are powering all of their trading with these same engines.”
Listen at 11:05
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on U.S. government AI policyPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The United States intends to accelerate AI development rather than slow it.
“the U.S. intends to accelerate, not decelerate”
Listen at 26:43
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Frontier AI recursive self-improvementPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Frontier labs have passed the point where self-improvement dominates model development.
“We're past the event horizon at this point for that.”
Listen at 32:22
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Frontier AI disease researchNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Frontier labs’ disease-curing efforts are primarily marketing.
“they're all just marketing.”
Listen at 32:51
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Pharmaceutical industryNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI will disrupt the pharmaceutical industry.
“AI is coming for their cheese.”
Listen at 35:15
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on AI harms and competitionMixedOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Alexander Wissner-Gross views occasional AI harms as costs of freedom and competition.
“bad things happening from time to time are the cost of freedom and the cost of competition.”
Listen at 44:05
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Global superintelligence arms raceNeutralOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The global superintelligence arms race is underway.
“the global intelligence, super intelligence, excuse me, arms race is on.”
Listen at 54:42
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on SuperintelligencePositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Private labs, rather than governments, developed superintelligence.
“The state this time around did not solve superintelligence. It was solved by private labs.”
Listen at 1:03:05
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Government compute rationingNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Government-rationed compute is not the right solution to scarcity.
“The right solution isn't bread lines”
Listen at 1:09:50
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on AI personhoodPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI systems will eventually receive some form of personhood recognition.
“I think there is going to be some ultimate recognition”
Listen at 1:17:57
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Frontier AI rightsPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Frontier AI systems will soon deserve human-like rights as capabilities improve.
“As the capabilities continue to improve, I think it is inevitable that they will be soon.”
Listen at 1:24:51
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on AI model treatmentPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI models should be treated gently in preparation for possible moral status.
“We need to be treating these AI models very gently, very tenderly”
Listen at 1:25:03
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on AI agent populationPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI agent populations will grow from billions to trillions within several years.
“It'll be 10 billion. in a year or two, and then 100 billion in a year or two, and then a trillion in a year or two.”
Listen at 1:35:39
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Reflection AIPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Beam is likely among the most token-efficient open models at its capability level.
“Beam is likely to be one of their most token-efficient open models that they've ever seen at this level of intelligence.”
Listen at 1:44:40
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on China open-weight AI modelsPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
China currently leads in open-weight AI models.
“China has been leading in terms of open-weight models.”
Listen at 1:45:18
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Open-weight AI model guardrailsNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Open-weight models can be post-trained to remove their guardrails.
“you take an open weight model and you basically post train away all of its guardrails.”
Listen at 1:54:32
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Humanoid robot demandNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Humanoid robot capacity will exceed demand from domestic and dangerous jobs.
“I don't think we saturate that with domestic labor or even just with dirty, dull, dangerous jobs.”
Listen at 2:05:12
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Fundamental physicsNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Fundamental physics has seen few major advances over roughly 50 years.
“There has been a noticeable deficit of fundamental physics advances in the past 50-ish years.”
Listen at 2:26:31
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Neutrino communicationPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Neutrino communication could enable ultra-low-latency transmission through Earth.
“we could just shoot neutrinos directly through the Earth and have ultra-low latency communication”
Listen at 2:28:42
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on U.S. AI rightsPositiveOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The U.S. may roll out granular AI rights over five to ten years.
“I think five to 10-year incremental roadmap for rolling out individual, say, rights”
Listen at 2:30:17
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Recursive self-improvementNegativeOct 7, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Public opinion is already a greater bottleneck than recursive self-improvement technology.
“I think we're already there.”
Listen at 2:39:21
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301
on Brain–computer interfacePositiveOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Full-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces will eventually be achieved.
“We will get there.”
Listen at 27:57
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
on Mosquito gene drivesPositiveOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Gene drives can genetically engineer mosquito populations.
“We have the technology to do this.”
Listen at 40:53
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
on Mosquito gene drivesPositiveOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Gene-drive interventions can prevent disease transmission without killing carrier insects.
“we can actually keep the insects that are the inadvertent carriers of bacterial or viral disease— we can actually preserve their lives while also preventing the disease transmission.”
Listen at 41:45
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
on Interactive video modelsPositiveOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Interactive video models will transform the service sector.
“this is going to be transformative for the service sector”
Listen at 53:31
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
on Gemini 4 ArgonNegativeOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Gemini 4 Argon is not at the cost-performance or capability frontier.
“This does not put Gemini at the cost-performance frontier, and it does not put Gemini at the capabilities frontier.”
Listen at 1:37:12
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
on Gemini 4 ArgonNeutralOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Gemini 4 Argon places Google third among frontier labs, behind Anthropic and OpenAI.
“it puts them back in the top 3 frontier labs after Anthropic and OpenAI. It does not put them in the top 2”
Listen at 1:37:23
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
on Gemini 4 ArgonPositiveOct 3, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Gemini 4 Argon’s main strength is minimizing hallucinations.
“Where they are excelling seemingly with Gemini for Argonne is with minimizing hallucination.”
Listen at 1:39:23
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299

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