208: The Intersection of AI Safety and Innovation: Insights from Soheil Koushan on LLMs, Vision, and Responsible AI Development

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Soheil’s Background and Journey in AI (0:40)
• Anthropic's Philosophy on Safety (1:21)
• Key Moments in AI Discovery (2:52)
• Computer Vision Applications (4:42)
• Magic vs. Reality in AI (7:35)
• Product Development at Anthropic (12:57)
• Tension Between Research and Product (14:36)
• Safety as a Capability (17:33)
• Community Notes and Democracy in AI (20:41)
• Expert Panels for Safety (21:38)
• Post-Training Data Quality (23:32)
• User Data and Privacy (25:32)
• Test Time Compute Paradigm (30:54)
• The Future of AI Interfaces (36:04)
• Advancements in Computer Vision (38:46)
• The Role of AGI in AI Development (41:52)
• Final Thoughts and Takeaways (43:07)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.