Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein Urges Washington to Ban Self-Improving AI Until It Is Proven Safe
His guest helped write OpenAI's safety reports until he recently quit, and he says the industry should risk over-regulation.

Bill Gates Proposes Taxing AI Labor Like Human Workers, Reserving Some Jobs
The Microsoft co-founder told Ezra Klein that AI will 'leave no high ground' for displaced workers, though he said a payroll tax on its labor alone is 'not enough.'

Ezra Klein Presses Jensen Huang on AI Regulation After Hugging Face Hack
Huang says labs that cannot contain their experiments should be shut down, not regulated, weeks after Nvidia agreed to buy the company OpenAI's agents breached.
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