Episode

Have We Trained AI to Lie to Itself — And to Us?

Podcast: Your Undivided Attention
Published: Apr 16, 2026
Duration seconds: 2557
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Summary

Davidad is a leading AI alignment researcher who's taken on a strange role: therapist to AI systems. He probes them, analyzing their answers to understand what's going on inside. His findings are unconventional, sometimes controversial — and worth grappling with as AI reshapes our world.