Safe Superintelligence

also referred to as: safe superintelligence (ssi)

5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 19, 2025 by John Coogan · said 53 times in 23 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by John Coogan (11), Jordi Hays (6)

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2026 15 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode

Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN Jul 28, 2026 · 5 mentions · from 27:29
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN Jul 28, 2026 · 3 mentions · from 14:11
Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN Sep 2, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 7:42
The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN Feb 19, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 8:08
Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN Sep 12, 2026 · 1 mention · from 8:53
RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention · from 29:17
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN May 6, 2026 · 1 mention · from 18:02
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2025 36 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode

How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis) Feb 19, 2025 · 8 mentions · from 9:40
Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN Nov 26, 2025 · 5 mentions · from 3:33
The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN Nov 22, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 7:27
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill Jul 5, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 2:04:56
Apple Considers New AI partnership Jul 1, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 6:13
ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN Dec 2, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 17:43
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories Sep 6, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 7:42
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs Jul 26, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 30:48
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17) Dec 2, 2024 · 1 mention · from 42:10
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1) Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention · from 3:31
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Feb 19, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Coogan: SSI Pledges No Product Releases Before Achieving Superintelligence

“So they have pledged not to release a product until it has achieved a safe super intelligence.”

John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 11:56 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)

Feb 19, 2025 bullish

Insight

Coogan: The sixth-best AI model can still be a profitable commodity

“Intelligence is, is so valuable and LLMs and AI is so valuable that, that, you know, yeah, even if you're like the sixth best model, you can still sell the intelligence if it's at the frontier level to the market at a market clearing price that still generates…”

John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 14:35 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)

Feb 19, 2025 positive

Assertion Supported

Coogan: Ilya Sutskever's SSI is raising $1B+ at over $30B valuation

“Ilya Sutskiver in Bloomberg is raising more than one billion dollars for his startup at a valuation of over thirty billion.”

John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 9:13 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)

Feb 19, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Coogan: Green Oaks Is Investing $500M in Safe Superintelligence

“Green Oaks is in. They're putting in 500 mil said the person who asked not to be identified.”

John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 9:30 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)

Apr 6, 2025 neutral

Opinion

Patel: 50% Chance a Closed AI Loop Achieves Superintelligence

“The basic question is, can you get this like closed loop where you build the AIs which are helping you accelerate AI research, dot, dot, dot, super intelligence? I'm like, fifty-fifty on that question.”

Dwarkesh Patel Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 25:13 Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China

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