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Sophia Xing on AI Microdramas, Plot Party, and the Future of Storytelling | Edited Transcript

fal Podcast host Matt Workman speaks with Plot Party founder Sophia Xing about China's microdrama boom, one-person AI production, vertical-drama economics, Hollywood adoption, emotional storytelling, and lowering the barriers to filmmaking.

Sep 13, 2026 Source video
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Buck Shlegeris on the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident and AI Safety | Edited Transcript

Jacob Effron interviews Redwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, reward hacking, agent cooperation, independent safety evaluation, chain-of-thought monitoring, and AI takeover risk.

Sep 4, 2026 Source video
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Tom Griffiths: Mapping the Jagged Edges of AI | Edited Transcript

Princeton cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths presents experiments on how language models represent colors, numbers, and categories, why next-token prediction produces predictable failures, and when reasoning helps or hurts. The Foresight Institute seminar concludes with questions on training data, alignment, and human-AI collaboration.

Sep 4, 2026 Source video
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How Close Are We to True Artificial General Intelligence? | Greg Brockman | Edited Transcript

TIME interviews OpenAI President Greg Brockman about leadership changes, enterprise strategy, agentic coding, the Hugging Face security incident, alignment, personal AGI, and the future of knowledge work.

Sep 3, 2026 Source video
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