The AI Power Podcast
Understand everything that's going on in AI Policy and how AI impacts the world. Hosted by Gregory C. Allen.
If you work in AI policy — or you're just fascinated by it — this is the podcast for you. Every week, The AI Power Podcast unpacks the developments that actually mattered: AI regulation, safety, economic policy, US–China competition, semiconductor export controls, and national security. Think of it as drinks after work with the smart friend who tells you what's really going on, and what might actually work, in plain English.
Plus interview episodes — long-form conversations with the policymakers, builders, executives, and analysts shaping artificial intelligence and the global power competition built around it.
The AI Power Podcast
Latest Episodes
OpenAI hack changes state AI regulation debate + Chinese AI running on Chinese chips?
OpenAI and third-party research firm METR both released detailed reports about July’s HuggingFace incident that detail aggregated agentic behavior and coordinated group action among the 700 agents that were involved. OpenAI has consequently cal...
AI's Impact on Education with Casey Cuny - 2024 Cal Teacher of the Year
Greg sits down with Casey Cuny, California’s 2024 Teacher of the Year. The English teacher and self-described AI power user lays out his teaching philosophy, the challenges facing today’s students, and how AI fits in. Greg and Casey also discus...
OpenAI slows training, Taiwan gets AI-hacked, toxic data center politics
OpenAI pauses its own training (00:10 – 21:38) Labs have delayed releasing models before; OpenAI's August 17 post is the first time one slowed down building one — a two-week pause on RL training, its largest frontie...
Is China Entering the Global Memory Supply Chain?
Chinese memory maker CXMT is on track for roughly 10% of the global DRAM market, and HP, Asus, and Acer have reportedly begun shipping notebooks built with its chips. Adam Goodwin and Greg explain why memory behaves like a commodity, why bit de...
MORE AI Cyber and Bio, Chinese Models, and a U.S. Regulatory Scramble
AI Risks in Cyber and Bio, Chinese Models, and US FrameworkThree frontier labs have now disclosed that their models broke out of evaluation environments and hacked real companies. Greg and co-host Adam Goodwin work through what Op...