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A crackdown in Uganda shows how new technologies, Chinese influence and America’s moral retreat are making the world safer for autocrats.

Assuming it’s achievable, should we even want superintelligence? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” Ezra Klein poses that question to David Robinson, who quit his role at OpenAI last week.

There’s a conflict of interest at the core of the current discourse around A.I. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” David Robinson, a former OpenAI safety employee, discusses how wealth and other factors are influencing the conversation about A.I. safety.

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