{"podcast":{"title":"Danny Jones Podcast","slug":"danny-jones-podcast-462898","podcast_index_feed_id":462898,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD2752074976","website_url":"https://www.daylightmedia.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3458dfb4-3eff-11ef-98f1-ef379edc942c/image/50c9241ef432988e46fee20837d045c7.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Danny Jones","episode_count":432,"summary":"Danny’s quest to get smarter.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T06:18:58.127034+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/danny-jones-podcast-462898"},"episode":{"title":"#432 - \"Self-Replicating Swarms\" AI Labs Are Lying About What's Happening | Connor Leahy","slug":"432-self-replicating-swarms-ai-labs-are-lying-about-what-s-happening-connor-leahy","published_at":"2026-09-18T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/danny-jones-podcast-462898/432-self-replicating-swarms-ai-labs-are-lying-about-what-s-happening-connor-leahy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/danny-jones-podcast-462898","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7124180443.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7124180443.mp3","summary":"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 language models, but later became one of the more outspoken voices warning that increasingly capable systems may outstrip society’s ability to control them. SPONSORS https://dosedaily.co/danny - Use code DANNY to get 35% off your first subscription. https://livemomentous.com - Use code DANNY for up to 35% off. https://www.amentara.com/go/dj - Use code DJP22 for 22% off your first order. https://hexclad.com/dannyjones - Get 10% off your forever cookware. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS https://controlai.org https://x.com/NPCollapse *NEW* DJP MERCH https://dannyjonespodcast.com Get paid to make clips from the show: https://discord.com/invite/dannyjones FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Anthropic employee's AI warning 04:46 - What AI really is (it's NOT code) 08:41 - The HuggingFace incident 16:33 - The motivation behind the AI race 21:47 - AI superintelligence is our enemy 23:58 - \"We don't have much time left\": the point of no return 31:41 - AI chain of thought 35:11 - Brain upload cults 43:16 - How AI thinks (and hides things from you) 53:01 - Why AI would kill off humans 57:24 - It's not too late 01:01:23 - Debating American democracy 01:13:44 - Difficulty training AI models for good 01:19:08 - AI translates baby's cries 01:25:28 - Having dinner with Sam Altman 01:31:26 - Why Connor deleted all social media 01:38:09 - We have human cloning technology 01:41:29 - How we stopped nuclear weapons 01:52:08 - Largest human dose of plutonium in history 01:54:40 - UAP…","meta_description":"Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Connor Leahy is an AI researcher & co-founder of EleutherAI. Connor he…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9858,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/danny-jones-podcast-462898/episodes/432-self-replicating-swarms-ai-labs-are-lying-about-what-s-happening-connor-leahy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/danny-jones-podcast-462898/432-self-replicating-swarms-ai-labs-are-lying-about-what-s-happening-connor-leahy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}