The Cal Newport Show

Has AI “Gone Rogue”? Let’s Look Closer… | Tech Decoded

Donnerstag, 27. August 2026 · 36 min

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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

() Has AI “Gone Rogue”

() Observation #1 - Most Superhuman AI is well behaved

() Observation #2 - A specific type of AI system is causing these problems

() Observation #3 - This specific type of system is a bad idea

() Observation #4 - The AI companies are negligent

() Observation #5 - We can push back

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow

anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cyb…

apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-i…

x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2080685870877757551

huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit1/agent…

youtube.com/watch?v=DwAOHVBKTwg

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