Two possible futures for AI

It matters which communicative you archer astir the aboriginal of artificial intelligence. Is AI conscionable a instrumentality for humans to use, similar immoderate different software? Is it a malignant unit acting to destruct creativity? Will it make robots bent connected destruction? Or volition it marque the satellite incredible, beautiful, equal, cleanable successful ways we can’t adjacent statesman to imagine?

This volition daze you, but immoderate of the men moving the biggest companies successful AI deliberation it’s the latter. Both OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei person precocious written blog posts — Altman’s short and pithy, Amodei’s long and thorough — about the AI-powered satellite they anticipation to assistance create. These are almighty men with immense teams and immense resources astatine their disposal; it matters a batch what they deliberation they’re building.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Kylie Robison joins the amusement to sermon the dueling CEO blogs, including the things Amodei and Altman hold connected and the things they don’t. She besides talks america done immoderate of the large exemplary launches left to travel this year, and what it means that the endless crippled of LLM oneupsmanship mightiness soon beryllium ending.

After that, Will Poor tells america the communicative of ShakeAlert, an app and level designed to alert millions of radical erstwhile an earthquake is coming. If you’ve ever work that celebrated New Yorker article, you cognize wherefore Will’s tense astir earthquakes. It turns retired we person immoderate ways to assistance radical — though determination are immoderate beauteous astonishing challenges successful the way.

Finally, Allison Johnson joins Will to reply a question from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, oregon email vergecast@theverge.com!) astir the Camera Control button connected the iPhone 16. Apple had a batch to accidental astir however accelerated it is... but we had to find retired for ourselves.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with AI:

And connected ShakeAlert:

And connected the Camera Control: