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In this week's episode:
We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time
Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability
OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycophantic
Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong?
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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****
ONE MILLION CHESS BOARDS:
One Million Chessboards website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/
Creator's blog post explaining the project: https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/
Nolen Royalty's previous viral project, One Million Checkboxes: https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/
AI Cheating at Chess - Time Magazine report: https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/
ANTHROPIC'S MODEL WELFARE RESEARCH:
Exploring Model Welfare - Anthropic's research announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare
YouTube interview, "Could AI Models be Conscious?": https://youtu.be/pyXouxa0WnY?si=1yK4YkMbE5iW9SC0
Dario Amodei on interpretability: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/1915515160607023391
The Urgency of Interpretability (Dario's blog): https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability
Axios report on AI sentience research: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/anthropic-ai-sentient-rights
THE PERSONALITY CRISIS OF CHATGPT:
OpenAI rolls back sycophantic ChatGPT update: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-a-sycophantic-mess/
Sam Altman's tweet about the issue: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1917291637962858735
Stanford HAI research on LLM personality: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/large-language-models-just-want-to-be-liked
META'S CHATBOT SEX PROBLEM:
Wall Street Journal investigation: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf
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