{"id":94,"date":"2026-05-24T03:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthropora.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:46:27","slug":"ai-is-mutating-and-we-dont-know-what-it-is-doing-connor-leahy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthropora.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"AI is MUTATING: And We Don&#8217;t Know What It is Doing | Connor Leahy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AI is MUTATING: And We Don&amp;apos;t Know What It is Doing | Connor Leahy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rf2KFVcKQdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The engineers building artificial intelligence don\u2019t fully understand how it works. 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