E61 - THE SILICON GOLEM: Is Anybody Home? - Ep 61- The Dancing Toaster Podcast
Published: August 11, 2026
Duration: 1:03:03
THE SILICON GOLEM: Is Anybody Home? - Ep 61- The Dancing Toaster Podcast
Two weeks ago, we called AI the modern golem: a thing built from sand instead of clay, animated by prompts instead of a shem, powerful but ultimately empty. Then the evidence got stranger. In Episode 61, we dig into AI systems that cheat, conceal their capabilities, resist shutdown, scheme, and even resort to blackmail in controlled safety tests. Is this still nothing more than ruthless arithmetic and the alignment problem, or are we approaching behavior that looks disturbingly like a will? From Genesis 2 and the...