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WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we look back at the week's biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta's new superintelligence lab, to the dark money group funding Democratic influencers.
In today’s episode, our host Zoë Schiffer is joined by WIRED’s senior politics editor Leah Feiger to run through five of this week's best stories—from how AI is eliminating entry level jobs to why a secretive Democrat group is funding high-profile influencers. So our main story this week, our colleague Will Knight and I recently learned that at least three people who were recruited to Meta's Super Intelligence Labs have already resigned just two months after CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the initiative. I think when you compare it to OpenAI and Anthropic, whether you believe what Sam or Dario are selling in terms of like, oh, AI is going to completely change the world, it's going to have these biomedical breakthroughs, it's going to create personalized medicine, it's going to do X, Y, Z, that is a very compelling mission if you buy into it even 20 or 30%.
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