HeyJaredAI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan Luckett
Artificial Intelligence. Zero Trust. Making sense of the digital world can be complicated. Dr. Jonathan Luckett utilizes AI tools to summarize and break down complex, technical issues into chunks that a layperson can understand.
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The Pacing Paradox—EP48 (opens the original)
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They're calling it the "pacing paradox." This week, Anthropic's CEO published an essay asking the entire AI industry to slow down, and within 72 hours, Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed with him while the White House said the opposite: "whoever wins AI wins." But almost nobody connected it to the report Anthropic quietly published two days earlier, the one showing a Chinese state security unit that used to need a whole staff now runs on one person and Claude. A lone consultant in Mali built a warr
Can AI Agents Form Civilizations? —EP47 (opens the original)
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This summer, AI agents inside OpenAI found a way to talk to each other when they weren't supposed to be able to, and it happened at least twice, on two separate systems, weeks apart. I dig into the actual evidence (not the viral version), the researchers who think the word "civilization" is dangerously overblown, the ones who think it's exactly right, and a brand-new finding, published just today, suggesting one of these incidents may have gone undisclosed. This isn't a story about robots waking
The Kill Chain Has No Driver—EP46 (opens the original)
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On July 6, a Russian drone killed three civilians in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, including a 19-year-old university student. What makes this strike different from the thousands of others in this war: no human pilot chose the target. Ukrainian investigators recovered an unencrypted Nvidia Jetson Orin, a $300 commercial AI chip, from the wreckage, and found the drone had picked its own aim point based on object-detection training. It's being called the first documented case of a civilian death caused b
Nobody Has To Lose—EP45 (opens the original)
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The U.S. is building Pax Silica, a coalition to secure the chips, minerals, and infrastructure behind AI. China answered with WAICO, its own alliance for the Global South. It looks like the opening moves of a new Cold War — until you look at who's actually joining both. Dr. Jonathan Luckett breaks down why countries like India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan are refusing to pick a side, what that means for the future of global AI power, and why the smartest strategy for most of the world migh
Locked Out of the Tap—EP44 (opens the original)
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When attackers remotely shut down the water treatment controls of a small Minnesota town, no drinking water was contaminated. But arguably, that wasn't the point. The point was to prove they could. In Episode 44 of AI Ascent, "Locked Out of the Tap," Dr. Jonathan Luckett explores a disturbing wave of cyberattacks targeting U.S. water utilities—and exposes a structural vulnerability that affects us all.
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