Wednesday, February 4, 2026

The Obtain: A dialog with Karen Hao, and the way did life start?


In a wide-ranging Roundtables dialog for MIT Expertise Overview subscribers, journalist and writer Karen Hao not too long ago spoke about her new e-book, Empire of AI: Goals and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.

She talked with government editor Niall Firth about how she first lined the corporate in 2020 whereas on employees at MIT Expertise Overview. They mentioned how the AI business now capabilities like an empire and went on to look at what ethically-made AI appears like.

Learn the transcript of the dialog, which has been frivolously edited and condensed. And, when you’re already a subscriber, you may watch the on-demand recording of the occasion right here

MIT Expertise Overview Narrated: How did life start?

How life begins is likely one of the greatest and hardest questions in science. All we all know is that one thing occurred on Earth greater than 3.5 billion years in the past, and it might effectively have occurred on many different worlds within the universe as effectively. Might AI assist us to unpick the mysteries across the origins of life and detect indicators of it on different worlds?

That is our newest story to be become a MIT Expertise Overview Narrated podcast, which 
we’re publishing every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Simply navigate to MIT Expertise Overview Narrated on both platform, and comply with us to get all our new content material because it’s launched.

The must-reads

I’ve combed the web to search out you in the present day’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.

1 xAI’s Grok went on an anti-Semitic rant 
Days after Elon Musk stated new updates would reduce its reliance on mainstream media. (WP $)
+ The chatbot began to name itself ‘MechaHitler.’ (WSJ $)
+ What Grok’s neo-Nazi flip tells us about xAI. (The Atlantic $)

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