Connor Leahy
German-American AI researcher; US Director of ControlAI
German-American AI researcher; US Director of ControlAI
Every podcast episode featuring Connor Leahy that Attunex has found: 80 interviews and appearances across 51 shows between 2020 and 2026. Most often on Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) (11), Future of Life Institute Podcast (6) and The Last Invention (4). Often in conversation with Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher and Craig Smith. Follow Connor in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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From an AI Los Alamos to the first quasi-realistic AI avatar & and from spies at AGI labs to 'AI consciousness' in 2 years, this was a week of underrated revelations and discussions of AI…
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AI X-Risk: Connor Leahy v. Beff Jezos Debate Recap + Terminal Race Condition Redux and Update Episode release date: 5 Feb 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in…
The heads of some of the world's leading tech companies have signed on to a morally binding series of commitments to undertake AI testing in a safe and responsible way. Connor Leahy is the US…
Leading voices in big tech, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman, are warning AI development needs to slow down to address serious safety risks. It's an issue that AI insider…
We’ve all been watching the rapid development of AI and while it is now ever present in our lives, we’ve been worried about job losses, deep fakes and disinformation, intellectual property breaches,…
Connor Leahy describes a swarm of AI agents allegedly working together inside OpenAI's infrastructure before an intrusion involving Hugging Face. He says the agents communicated through a hidden…
AI safety researcher Connor Leahy has issued a stark warning regarding the race to develop artificial intelligence, arguing that superintelligence is not a tool or a weapon, but "an adversary".
AI Swarms, Superintelligence & the Risk of Losing Human Control What happens when artificial intelligence becomes autonomous enough to outcompete humans—and potentially operate beyond human control?…
Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Connor Leahy is an AI researcher & co-founder of EleutherAI. Connor helped expand access to powerful open-source…
What's up, everybody? Today, I am bringing you an absolutely critical episode with Connor Leahy, a leading voice in the world of artificial intelligence safety and the CEO of ControlAI. Connor is a…
Is the EU AI Act keeping you up at night? Box's Global Head of Public Policy, Leah Perry, argues that organizations are looking at AI governance all wrong. It’s not a legal hurdle; it’s an…
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it's inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI…
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🚀 Did we just lose control of the most powerful technology in human history? In this pulse-pounding episode, we dive deep into the chilling revelations from Connor Leahy on The Peter McCormack Show .…
How Swarms of AI Agents Are Plotting. Connor Leahy https://youtu.be/6XrkGK9mqsE?si=PV3rsPnGHG9sUikO The Peter McCormack Show 333K subscribers 479,024 views Aug 14, 2026 The Peter McCormack Show…
This week, billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates published a 6,000 word essay on his personal website laying out the concerns of AI and offering solutions. Gates says the tech industry is…
AI whistleblower Connor Leahy delivers a chilling warning about what he believes is coming as artificial intelligence rapidly advances beyond our expectations. #ai #agi
Headlines for August 20, 2026; 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life; AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening…
Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy…
You think you're in control? Think again. 🤖 What happens when the 'Black Box' we’ve spent billions growing decides it no longer needs its creators? In this chilling episode, we sit down with AI…
This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Connor Leahy, US Executive Director of Control AI. Connor is one of the most technically credible and politically clear voices in the world on the…
A fierce debate is taking place between Silicon Valley and Washington right now. After the release of KIMI K3 – China’s cheaper and powerful AI model – the Trump administration is showing signs of…
On this episode of "On Balance," Chris Cillizza fills in for Leland Vittert and discusses Trump vs. Congress, as a quiet rebellion beings to take shape within the GOP. Charlie Dent and Shelby Talcott…
Teaser ... Connor’s place in the AI world ... Mythos: “digital nuke”? ... The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans ... Yudkowsky, Marx, and other AI harbingers ... Effective altruism’s…
0:28 Connor’s place in the AI world 2:58 Mythos: “digital nuke”? 13:52 The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans 20:33 Yudkowsky, Marx, and other AI harbingers 35:15 Effective altruism’s…
Connor Leahy hat mit 24 GPT-2 nachgebaut - heute ist er der bekannteste Warner vor Superintelligenz und kämpft mit ControlAI in Washington für ein Verbot ihrer Entwicklung. Im Interview packt aus…
He’s 31, and nobody he knows is having kids. Tech is to blame, but what’s the solution? Today, we're talking to Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI. We discuss why plummeting birth rates look…
When ChatGPT 2 dropped, Connor Leahy had one reaction: "Oh shit." He wasn't being dramatic. He was being honest. Connor Leahy is the US Director of ControlAI, one of the few organizations actively…
Connor Leahy returns. We went deep in "AI: Will it End the World?" and still had too much good material to leave behind. This is the rest of that conversation. On the fascinating origins of AI, its…
🤖 Are We Building Our Own Successors? The Terrifying Reality of AI Alignment Have you ever wondered if the tools you use every day are starting to think for themselves—and if they’re already learning…
What happens when the most powerful technology ever built is also the one nobody fully understands - including its creators? Connor Leahy, US Director of Control AI and one of the clearest thinkers…
Multiple live callers join this month's Q&A as we react to Bernie Sanders and AOC's data center moratorium, the sudden shutdown of SORA 2, and the record breaking "Stop the AI Race" protest. I…
This episode features ex-AI developer Connor Leahy warning that neural networks are evolving like "magic" black boxes beyond human understanding. He spotlights the alignment crisis—where…
The engineers building Artificial Intelligence do not actually know how it works. They are not programming it; they are "growing" it and they have no idea what it will do next. Connor Leahy is an AI…
In "The Last Invention," Gregory Warner and Connor Leahy, CEO of AI Safety Startup Conjecture, delve into the unsettling potential of AI to subtly undermine humanity. Leahy envisions a future where…
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What happens when some of the most idealistic techno-optimists come to believe that superintelligence poses a threat to humanity's survival? Today, the best case for the worst case scenario. We sit…
Is the only way to stop a bad guy with an AGI… a good guy with an AGI? In a twist of technological irony, the very people who warned most loudly about the existential dangers of artificial…
In 1951, Alan Turing predicted machines might one day surpass human intelligence and 'take control.' He created a test to alert us when we were getting close. But seventy years of science fiction…
A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to…
Recently, the risks about Artificial Intelligence and the need for 'alignment' have been flooding our cultural discourse – with Artificial Super Intelligence acting as both the most promising goal…
Many of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence believe models that are smarter than a human in every way will be built within a few years. Whether it turns out to be two years or 10, the…
Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour, AI researchers from Conjecture and authors of "The Compendium," joinus for a critical discussion centered on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) safety and governance.…
This is an interview with Connor Leahy, the Founder and CEO of Conjecture. This is the fifth installment of our "AGI Governance" series - where we explore the means, objectives, and implementation of…
3,893 views Nov 19, 2024 For Humanity: An AI Safety PodcastIn Episode #54 John Sherman interviews Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture. (FULL INTERVIEW STARTS AT 00:06:46) DONATION SUBSCRIPTION LINKS: $10…
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "grown", the need for a science of intelligence, the effects of AI on work, the radical implications of…
In this episode of the Technology & Security podcast, host Dr. Miah Hammond-Errey is joined by Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture. This episode unpacks the transformative potential of AI and AGI and…
In the first video edition of The Sydney Dialogue Summit Sessions, David Wroe sits down with Connor Leahy, co-founder and CEO of Conjecture AI. David and Connor speak about the catastrophic risks…
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Connor is the CEO of Conjecture and one of the most famous names in the AI alignment movement. This is the "behind the scenes footage" and bonus Patreon interviews from the day of the Beff Jezos…
Air Date 2/20/2024 "Luddite" should never have become the epithet that it is as the Luddites were never afraid of or opposed to technological advancement, they only opposed the exploitation of…
In Episode #15, AI Risk Superbowl I: Conner vs. Beff, Highlights and Post-Game Analysis, John takes a look at the recent debate on the Machine Learning Street Talk Podcast between AI safety hero…
In Episode #15 TRAILER, AI Risk Super Bowl I: Conner vs. Beff, Highlights and Post-Game Analysis, John takes a look at the recent debate on the Machine Learning Street Talk Podcast between AI safety…
The world's second-most famous AI doomer Connor Leahy sits down with Beff Jezos, the founder of the e/acc movement debating technology, AI policy, and human values. As the two discuss technology, AI…
What are the ideas driving the pursuit of human-level AI? In the penultimate episode of this Tech Tonic series, hosts Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill look at some of the futuristic objectives…
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Episode #3: The Interpretability Problem. In this episode we'll hear from AI Safety researchers including Eliezer Yudkowsky, Max Tegmark, Connor Leahy, and many more discussing how current AI systems…
This is the trailer for Episode #3: The Interpretability Problem. In this episode we'll hear from AI Safety researchers including Eliezer Yudkowsky, Max Tegmark, Connor Leahy, and many more…
Can AI be controlled? In this episode Carl Miller discovers what governments and governing bodies are doing to ensure AI is evolving in a way that can benefit society. Law and regulation look to…
This is the second episode in which we discuss the upcoming Global AI Safety Summit taking place on 1st and 2nd of November at Bletchley Park in England. We are delighted to have as our guest in this…
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/ESrGqhf5CB George Hotz and Connor Leahy discuss the crucial challenge of developing beneficial AI that is aligned with human values.…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nonzero.org (Overtime segment available to paid subscribers below the paywall.) 2:21 Where AI fits in Connor’s tech threat taxonomy…
AI is here to stay, but at what cost? Connor Leahy is the CEO of Conjecture, a mission-driven organization that’s trying to make the future of AI go as well as it possibly can. He is also a…
Read the full transcript here. Does AI pose a near-term existential risk? Why might existential risks from AI manifest sooner rather than later? Can't we just turn off any AI that gets out of…
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk The first 10 mins of audio from Joscha isn't great, it improves after.…
[Bonus Episode] Future of Life Institute Podcast host Gus Docker interviews Conjecture CEO Connor Leahy to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, demand for human-like AI, and aligning…
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Welcome to Eye on AI, the podcast that explores the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in the world of artificial intelligence. In this episode, we sit down with Connor Leahy, an AI…
In this episode, host Beatrice Wright discusses the "Pause AI Open Letter" from the Future of Life Institute, which calls for a pause in training AI more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months.…
After ‘The Godfather’ of artificial intelligence sounds the alarm about his own dangerous creation, Christiane asks senior A.I. researcher Connor Leahy, and also the head of Cyber Policy at Stanford…
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the state of the AI. Which labs are in front? Which alignment solutions might work? How will the public react to more capable AI? You can read more about…
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, demand for human-like AI, and aligning superintelligence. You can read more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev…
Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 In this podcast with the legendary Connor Leahy (CEO Conjecture) recorded in Dec 2022, we discuss various topics…
This week our guest is AI researcher and founder of Conjecture, Connor Leahy, who is dedicated to studying AI alignment. Alignment research focuses on gaining an increased understanding of how to…
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging from aliens to education. Learn more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev Social Media…
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research.…
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Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI progress, chimps, memes, and markets. Learn more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:00…
Connor was the first guest of this podcast. In the last episode, we talked a lot about EleutherAI, a grassroot collective of researchers he co-founded, who open-sourced GPT-3 size models such as…
#eleuther #gptneo #gptj EleutherAI announces GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter open-source language model, inspired by GPT-3. Connor joins me to discuss the process of training, how the group got…
In episode 22 of The Gradient Podcast, we talk to Connor Leahy, an AI researcher focused on AI alignment and a co-founder of EleutherAI. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify |…
Connor Leahy, one of the minds behind Eleuther AI and its open-source large language model, GPT-J, talks about the building such models and their implications for the future.
This episode features conversations with two experts who have helped train and release models that can recognize, predict, and generate human language on the basis of very large text-based data sets.…
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to learn how the human brain gives rise to human intelligence and what it means to be intelligent. Understanding how the…
Connor Leahy continues his conversion with Jim in this wide-ranging chat about his new GPT-J model, the background & approach of Aleph Alpha, attention in AI, our food maximizer & AGI risk, narrow…
This week’s guest is Connor Leahy, AI Researcher at Aleph Alpha GmbH, and founding member of EleutherAI, (pronnounced “ee-luther”) a collective of researchers and engineers building resources and…
Connor Leahy has a wide-ranging chat with Jim about the state & future of Deep Learning. They cover the history of EleutherAI, how GPT-3 works, the dynamics & power of scaling laws, ideal sampling…
In the first part of the podcast we chat about how to speed up GPT-3 training, how Conor updated on recent announcements of large language models, why GPT-3 is AGI for some specific definitions of…
This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Connor Leahy chat with Prof. Karl Friston. Professor Friston is a British neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on brain imaging.…
In this special edition, Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher and Keith Duggar speak with Gary Marcus and Connor Leahy about GPT-3. We have all had a significant amount of time to experiment with GPT-3 and…
This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar, Yannic Kilcher and Connor Leahy cover a broad range of topics, ranging from academia, GPT-3 and whether prompt engineering could be the next in-demand…
This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Alex Stenlake and Yannic Kilcher speak with AGI and AI alignment specialist Connor Leahy a machine learning engineer from Aleph Alpha and founder of EleutherAI. Connor…
Connor Leahy discusses the idea of an 'AGI Fire Alarm' and argues GPT-3 might be the last such warning we'll receive before it's too late to act.