The Messy Web of AI Guardrails

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack a surprising policy reversal from the White House, which is now weighing a plan to vet frontier AI models before release after revoking Biden's safety order on day one. They also dig into the Musk versus OpenAI trial testimony, where $80 billion Mars requests and near-physical confrontations made it feel more like a soap opera than a courtroom.
Also in this episode: OpenAI traced a goblin obsession back to a rogue reward signal, Yann LeCun told students to ignore AI doom narratives, Gary Marcus called out Richard Dawkins for declaring Claude is conscious, a researcher invented a fake disease that every AI treated as real, and in the speed round, Nvidia's China market share hit zero, Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion enterprise joint venture, Google split its TPU into two chips, and China made it illegal to fire workers over AI. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

• 0:00 - Start

• 0:04:00 - White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-mod…)

• Behind the White House’s Potential Rethink on A.I. (nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/dealbook/trump…)

• 0:13:51 - Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender (theguardian.com/music/2026/may/05/canadian-ash…)

• What Was Discussed at Google’s White House Meeting About A.I. (nytimes.com/2026/05/04/business/dealbook/googl…)

• 0:22:32 - Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data (washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/01/penta…)

• 0:24:09 - OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/923684…)

• 0:31:32 - Where the goblins came from (OpenAI) (openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from)

• 0:36:29 - Video explaining JEPA with LeCun (youtube.com/watch?v=kYkIdXwW2AE)

• 0:42:50 - AI godfather Yann LeCun's blunt advice for the AI age (axios.com/2026/05/04/ai-godfather-survival-gui…)

• 0:44:47 - Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? (newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/will-ai-make-co…)

• 0:48:51 - Marcus: Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion (garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-and-…)

• 0:55:29 - Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y)

• 1:02:37 - Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired' (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-inte…)

• 1:04:40 - Anthropic Unveils AI Agents to Field Financial Services Tasks (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/anthrop…)

• 1:06:12 - New: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex)

• 1:08:33 - Google's eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-a…)

• 1:10:25 - China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs (theregister.com/2026/05/04/asia_tech_news_roun…)

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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