What would you do if the technology we already use every day was about to become more powerful than almost anyone is prepared for? That’s the question I kept coming back to in this conversation with Daniel Kokotajlo. Daniel was an Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety researcher at OpenAI who walked away from the company because he was deeply concerned by the speed at which superintelligence was being built and whether the people building it had a real plan to keep it under control. Back in 2021,

Follow us @oddsontechnology for more tech archives and tech videos. Even the creator of C doesn’t know all of C . When developers asked Bjarne Stroustrup how they could learn every part of C , his answer was surprisingly simple: don’t. After more than four decades of evolution, the language has grown so large that even its own creator regularly looks things up. His advice wasn’t to memorize every function, STL container, library, or template—it was to understand the fundamentals and know where t