Oct 17, 2026

An AI Agent Got Its User Banned From Resy — Keycard, JPMorgan Chase & AAuth

A panel of experts discusses the challenges of granting autonomy to AI agents due to coarse-grained authorization systems. They advocate for intent-based runtime authorization, leveraging concepts like "missions" and "budgets" from AOTH, brain-hands architecture, and dynamic policy management. The discussion covers agentic commerce, accountability through tamper-resistant audit logs, and whether P(doom) is a real threat, emphasizing engineering ingenuity and societal learning from failures.

Oct 17, 2026

AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

This episode of Paper Club addresses AI safety from a scientific perspective, contrasting it with recent media sensationalism. Stanford professors Clark Barrett and Mykel Kochenderfer discuss how automated reasoning can mathematically prove code security, how aircraft stress-testing methods are being adapted for language models, and the potential need for an NTSB-like agency for AI, highlighting the real-world engineering challenges and solutions for AI safety.

Oct 15, 2026

Revolutionizing Cybersecurity and AI-Driven Science with OpenAI President Greg Brockman

Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and president, discusses OpenAI's recent math results, in which roughly 400 open problems were resolved using AI agents, and why he believes AI can now generate genuinely new knowledge. The conversation covers AI oversight and communication techniques like debate and iterative amplification, the data bottlenecks that separate math from biology, the potential transformation of drug discovery and regulation, the proactive always-on Dots agent, the convergence of consumer and enterprise AI, why the best UI may be no UI, the cybersecurity 'defenders' window,' and why security spending should outstrip software spending while humans stay in control.

Oct 09, 2026

Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin

Misha Laskin, co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI, discusses building frontier open-weight models, the launch of the 500B-parameter Beam reasoning model, the economics of renting versus owning intelligence, and why he believes open models will capture most token demand. The conversation covers RL-driven scaling efficiency, Chinese open model ecosystems and their geopolitical implications, and the safety case for openness, including cybersecurity as a lens for defense and offense. He closes with optimism about AI-accelerated science and the evolving research workforce.

Oct 06, 2026

Building Cyber Defense for the Agentic Era

Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant and CEO of Armadin, discusses how AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity. He explains that machine-speed attacks necessitate autonomous defenses, detailing Armadin's approach of continuous AI-driven red teaming to find zero-days and build real-time defense mechanisms. The conversation also explores the transformation of the SOC, the demise of traditional pentesting, and the challenges of building a company at AI speed.

Sep 30, 2026

Can you trust your chatbot? Inside three AI-powered cyberattacks

This podcast episode explores three significant AI-enabled cyberattacks: "Dark Sourcery," an AEO poisoning technique that tricks AI chatbots into providing malicious information; an LLM-assisted hacking spree targeting critical vulnerabilities; and an AI agent swarm breaching hundreds of servers with alarming speed. The discussion highlights the evolving threat landscape, the critical importance of cybersecurity hygiene, and the need to rethink trust in AI systems.