3 Million AI Models and One Very Convenient Week 🍸 Ep 213

In this episode, Shane Skwarek and Tim Philipps unpack the AI doom campaign that hit in twelve days: Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar’s Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Jacob Coxon’s Anthropic resignation and a quiet X account at nine-figure views, Dario Amodei’s “Pace the Frontier” essay, and Netflix’s The AI Doc dropping the night they recorded.Then the hour turns to what the scare leaves out — Hugging Face’s 3 million open-source AI models, why frontier labs at OpenAI and Anthropic might want a federal regulator, foreign amplification on the Coxon thread, Coefficient Giving and Dustin Moskovitz money on both sides of the alarm, and Coxon’s path through Newspeak House.Is artificial intelligence an extinction risk, or is the panic a path to a license only the incumbents can hold? Multiple things can be true. You decide. Cocktails & Conspiracies, Episode 213. Visit us on the web:https://www.conspiracyrealist.com https://www.cocktailsconspiracies.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@conspiracyrealistX: https://x.com/conspiracyonxInstagram: https://instagram.com/CocktailsConspiraciesFacebook: https://facebook.com/CocktailsConspiraciesTimestamps 00:00 Sore throat, honey, and the greeting 03:35 Why this week feels like a launch 04:37 Jacob Coxon and the quiet account 06:03 Sanders–Casar and the nuclear analog 08:00 Amodei, “Pace the Frontier,” Netflix tonight 09:50 The old talking-points playbook 12:00 Elon calls it a psyop — then agrees 15:18 Hugging Face: 3,069,723 models 18:14 Home-box AI vs a $20 cap 21:31 Aggregators, scraping, and China 25:15 What regulation does to an open market 31:19 Models getting quieter 32:20 A federal AI shop and the First Amendment 33:52 76 percent of the reposts were not American 41:49 A researcher, six weeks in 42:50 Coefficient Giving, Moskovitz, Karnofsky 47:23 Real risk, or a brilliant plot 52:39 Cuban: AI extinction vs climate 55:36 Memory, medicine, energy, incumbents 59:06 Newspeak House 1:03:06 Why would AI be any different 1:04:18 Shane bets the psyop. Tim buys in. Keywords artificial intelligence, AI safety, AI regulation, open source AI, Hugging Face, Jacob Coxon, Anthropic, OpenAI, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Sanders Casar bill, Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Coefficient Giving, Open Philanthropy, Dustin Moskovitz, Newspeak House, Netflix The AI Doc, AI monopoly, AI doom, Cocktails and Conspiracies, Conspiracy Realist