If you can't align it, don't ship it — and if you can't contain your own experiments, shut the labs down. Jensen Huang's message to Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3050: Barry Werth on How American Scientists Saved Your Life https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-age-of-cures?utm_source=youtube
“Kennedy and Trump are taking a wrecking ball to probably the most important thing we have done consistently better than the rest of the world over the last eighty years, and I don’t get it.” — Barry Werth Last week on the show, the San Francisco based AI mogul and…
Peter Wehner on what's changed in the second term: sociopathic tendencies fused with visible cognitive decline, and far fewer people willing to check him. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
The Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution — all at once, compressed into a decade. Richard Socher on what AI is about to do to science. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
160 acres, for little more than a title fee. Joshua Specht on the Homestead Act of 1862 — the boldest bet any government ever made on making citizens out of landowners. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Asked to sum himself up in one word, Alan Dershowitz offers two: proudly Jewish, and American. Plus the line his wife says belongs on his tombstone. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3049: Robin Wigglesworth on How Bonds Built the Modern World https://keenon.substack.com/p/a-fabulous-debt?utm_source=youtube
Amidst all the talk of an AI bubble, bonds are back in the news. The world’s two leading business newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, both feature stories this weekend warning about bond ructions and surging yields. While these warnings might only interfere with the sleep of…
A perfectly undetectable virus with a remotely triggered off switch? Nobody knows how to build a Wi-Fi switch into a protein. Richard Socher dismantles the AI doom scenarios. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
"Up until now they've been saying, hey, it's not us, it's the AI. Well, actually, no. It is you." Keith Teare on why the labs are already legally accountable. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3048: Untangling the Power from the Pretense of Our AI Circus https://keenon.substack.com/p/and-now-for-something-completely?utm_source=youtube
Lenin supposedly said there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. This wasn’t one of those weeks. It might have looked like a historic week. The AI circus rolled into the UN with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei addressing the Security Council on the peril facing “humanity…
He defended Palestinian students' right to fly their flag in Harvard Yard — then spoke against Arafat at their own event. Alan Dershowitz on free speech when it was still possible. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Fewer than thirty employees, valued at over $4 billion. Richard Socher on Recursive — the company built to automate the scientific method itself. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
"A good divorce is better than a bad marriage." At 88, after voting Democrat since JFK, Alan Dershowitz explains why he left the party. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
He spent a career escaping his great-grandfather Sigmund Freud — and ended up reinventing him. George Loewenstein on id, superego and the science of misery. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Six weeks out, Robert Pape warns the November midterms could be the most dangerous election of our lifetimes — and the danger zone is the counting, not election day. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3047: Jonathan Rauch & Peter Wehner on the Autumn of the American Patriarch https://keenon.substack.com/p/trump-has-finally-lost-the-plot?utm_source=youtube
Is Trump's America converging with China — patrimonial capitalism meeting statist capitalism? Harvard's Peter Hall: "I think you're all too right about that." Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
