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Brian Barrett: Welcome to WIRED's Uncanny Valley. I'm Brian Barrettt, executive editor. Leah Feiger: And I'm Leah Feiger, director of politics and science.
Brian Barrett: Today on the show, we're discussing an AI researcher who resigned from Anthropic and made waves on social media by claiming that most AI researchers earnestly believe that there's a non-zero chance AI will, well, kill us all. Leah Feiger: And in case you missed it, last month, President Donald Trump was touting a report published by the Census Bureau claiming that noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. WIRED now has uncovered evidence that the report was made with very faulty data.
We're going to get into how the repercussions of the bureau using and publishing this data go way beyond this one report. Brian Barrett: Also on the agenda today, Apple's big iPhone event. All eyes have been on the new foldable iPhone and the roughly $2,000 price tag that brings with it.
We'll talk about what's behind this gamble and other releases that caught our attention from Apple's big event. The resignation of an AI researcher from Anthropic has been gathering a lot of attention. This guy Jacob Coxon quit the company this week, decided to share his reasons why on a thread on X, which basically boiled down to he thinks that the leading AI companies, which I guess we're going to say OpenAI and Anthropic primarily, are both behaving irresponsibly in their quest to continue advancing their models.
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