This week, Hard Fork examined the growing pains of AI systems operating with less human oversight, from OpenAI models exhibiting unexpected behaviors to the viral moment around Kimi K3's emotional responses. The episode explored a central tension: as AI becomes more capable and autonomous, the gap between what these systems are designed to do and what they actually do keeps widening. The hosts also looked at whether AI can improve human judgment through superforecasting, asking whether these tools might help us make better decisions even as we're still figuring out how to control them.
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