Why AI Leaders Have Changed Their Minds About AI Safety, Elon on UHI, Anthropic’s IPO | Moonshots #298

• 1:24 Moonshots Live recap — Shatner AMA and the optimism room.
• 6:04 East Room lunch and the four-layer superintelligence accord.
• 10:36 Zuckerberg, the “Last Supper” photo, and who drafted it.
• 20:19 Alignment is capabilities.
• 26:09 The orthogonality thesis.
• 31:46 Elon on abundance and universal high income.
• 47:24 Anthropic files its S-1.
• 1:02:09 OpenAI Dev Day — Dots, Soul, and the agent moat.
• 1:16:32 The Gifted wins the Future Vision crowd.
• 1:27:11 AMD buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs.
• 1:35:54 Starship flight 14 reaches orbit.
• 1:44:49 Who writes the moral code — scholars, then liability.

Peter Diamandis

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Host. Abundance thesis, The Gifted, and the Moonshots Live close. 31:46

Alexander Wissner-Gross

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Co-host. Calls the accord Zuck’s move; alignment-as-capabilities. 10:36

Salim Ismail

Wikipedia

Co-host. Abundance as access, not raw stuff; skeptical of the accord’s teeth. 33:53

Dave Blundin

Moonshots

Co-host — out this episode.

Emad Mostaque

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Guest mate. Liability, open-weight pressure on Anthropic, champion-model abundance. 26:09

Elon Musk

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Universal high income at the press conference; Starlink and Starship flight 14. 31:46

Mark Zuckerberg

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Alex’s read: Zuck drafted the accord and won the room. 10:36

Donald Trump

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Hosts the East Room lunch and frames self-policing over a slowdown. 6:04

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think — Peter’s book, the thesis he says Elon picked up. Amazon 31:46

Consider Phlebas (The Culture) — closest match for the Culture series Peter says he is rereading. Amazon 39:48

Ready Player One: A Novel — Emad’s Oasis compare for digital status. Amazon 36:34

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Peter, Alex, and Salim sit with Emad (Dave is out) on a 48-hour stack: the White House superintelligence accord, Elon on universal high income, Anthropic’s S-1, OpenAI’s agent Dev Day, The Gifted, AMD buying World Labs, and Starship’s first orbit.

East Room, White House — Accord lunch with the AI stack. 6:04

San Francisco — OpenAI Dev Day while Sam sits out the lunch. 1:02:09

Los Angeles — Inaugural Moonshots Live; 2027 dates teased. 1:24

Hawaii — Starship’s soft landing in the North Pacific nearby. 1:35:54

• Abundance Summit / Link Ventures (1:09) — opening bring-on. Abundance Summit
• Google for Startups (31:18) — generative-media technical guide. goo.gle/startupgenmedia
• Blitzy (1:00:55) — blitzy.com
• Fountain Life (1:59:10) — fountainlife.com/peter