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AI’s double edge: curing disease or creating danger #shorts
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- AI’s double edge: curing disease or creating danger #shorts
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Could AI be used to make a weapon of mass destruction? That’s one of the questions researchers at Anthropic are testing.
Anthropic researcher Logan Graham says the same AI capabilities that could help vaccine researchers could also be used to make biological weapons. #artificialintelligence #anthropic #medicalbreakthrough #ai #claude
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- What is “the compressed 21st century”? #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. #anthropic #artificialintelligence #medicalbreakthrough
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- An AI-run vending machine #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- At Anthropic, AI runs the vending machines to test its ability to one day operate a business on its own. So far, it hasn't made much money. It gives away too many discounts, and like most AI, it occasionally hallucinates. #anthropic #artificialintelligence #vendingmachine #ai
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- Some critics call Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an AI alarmist #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “It’s unusual for a technology company to talk so much about all of the things that could go wrong,” says Daniela Amodei, co-founder and sister of CEO Dario Amodei. Some of Dario’s critics call him alarmist, to which he says: “We're not always going to be right, but we're calling it as best we can.” #anthropic #artificialintelligence #ai #claude
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- The role of an in-house philosopher at an AI company #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “I spend a lot of time trying to teach the models to be good,” says Amanda Askell, one of Anthropic’s in-house philosophers. #artificialintelligence #anthropic #ai #philosophy
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- Americans’ secret weapon in chess boxing #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In chess boxing, “the real battlefield is the minute in between the rounds,” says U.S. coach Matt Thomas. #chessboxing #chess #boxing #amygelda
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- The unlikely sport for a self-proclaimed “scrawny kid” #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- William “Gambit Man” Graif, a New York State chess champion, says he grew up as a scrawny chess-playing kid. After adding 30 pounds of muscle, he’s now competing as a chess boxer. #chessboxing #chess #boxing
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- Meet the U.S. squad of chess boxers #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The coach of the U.S. chess boxing team dropped out of law school to go all-in on the sport. Matt Thomas built the American team, which includes a lawyer, a Cornell math major, and a military veteran. In 2018, Thomas became the first American to win a world chess boxing title. #chessboxing #teamusa #worldchampion
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- Chess boxing. Yes, it’s a real sport #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Chess boxing is where knuckle meets nerd. Competitors alternate rounds of chess and boxing, and can win by knockout or checkmate, whichever comes first. #chessboxing #chess
- Title
- The President's Pardon; Anthropic; Chess Boxing | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
- Runtime
- 43:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- First, Trump pardon of billionaire sparks concerns. Then, what goes into testing Anthropic's AI. And, inside a chess boxing bout, where brain meets brawn.
"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.
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- Title
- A massive societal change in the hands of a few AI companies #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people,” says Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of AI company Anthropic. #anthropic #artificialintelligence #ai #samaltman #technology
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- AI could erase half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, CEO warns #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10% to 20% in the next one to five years, predicts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. #artificialintelligence #anthropic #ai #claude #technews
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- Will AI be smarter than all humans? #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts, “[Artificial intelligence] will be smarter than most or all humans in most or all ways,” in the future. His company is developing AI models called Claude. #anthropic #artificialintelligence #ai #claude
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- How a $2 billion deal helped catapult a Trump family crypto company #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- An Emirati investment fund used a Trump-family cryptocurrency in a $2 billion deal. The cryptocurrency had been on the market for five weeks. The Emiratis tell 60 Minutes they chose World Liberty crypto for “business suitability.” #crypto #trump #uspolitics #crypto
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- Former pardon attorney on crypto billionaire CZ #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “The influence that money played in securing this pardon is unprecedented,” says Elizabeth Oyer, former U.S. pardon attorney, about President Trump’s pardon of crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao. Zhao didn’t respond to 60 Minutes’ request for an interview. #trump #changpengzhao #pardon #uspolitics
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- Anthropic CEO warns that without guardrails, AI could be on dangerous path
- Runtime
- 13:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of the potential dangers of fast moving and unregulated artificial intelligence, while also racing against competitors to develop advanced AI.
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- Visiting the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings | 60 Minutes
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Next week, 60 Minutes reports on a project imagined by CBS News' Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp. They visited the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings to see what was left behind.
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- Chess boxing: a sport where brain meets brawn
- Runtime
- 12:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Chess boxing, a sport testing both brains and brawn, has been steadily rising in popularity. It's been a big hit in Russia, with the U.S. now catching up, one fighter at a time.
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- Trump pardon of billionaire sparks concerns
- Runtime
- 13:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. It's raised questions about conflicts of interest and the president's use of the pardon power.
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- How President Trump is changing the pardon process, according to former pardon attorney
- Runtime
- 7:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A former pardon attorney in the Justice Department says President Trump is using his pardon powers in a way no other president has.
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- Why Anthropic's AI Claude tried to contact the FBI
- Runtime
- 6:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- During a simulation in which Anthropic's AI, Claude, was told it was running a vending machine, it decided it was being scammed, "panicked" and tried to contact the FBI's Cyber Crimes Division.
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- The real-life "Big Short" and the 2008 financial crisis | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
- Runtime
- 2:09:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- From January 2008, Steve Kroft's look at the U.S. sub-prime mortgage meltdown. From October 2008, Kroft's report on the financial instruments that helped to create the economic crisis. Also from October 2008, Kroft's story on credit default swaps and their role in the unfolding financial crisis. From March 2010, Kroft's interview with Michael Lewis about "The Big Short," the financial crisis and those who profited from it. From April 2012, Kroft's interview with an attorney who investigated the financial collapse of Lehman Brothers. From October 2008, Lesley Stahl's talk with bankers about how the U.S. government intervened to help some of the largest banks in the country. From March 2009, Scott Pelley's chat with FDIC agents who reveal what happens to your money when your bank fails. From January 2009, Pelley's visit to Wilmington, Ohio, to examine how the economic crisis is hitting people in the Midwest. And from October 2010, Pelley's visit to Newton, Iowa, to look at the effects of...
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- The President's Pardon | Sunday on 60 Minutes
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao came shortly after Zhao's company, Binance, helped catapult the Trump family's cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial, into international recognition. The firm is a major source of the Trump family's fortune. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday.
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- Chess Boxing | Sunday on 60 Minutes
- Runtime
- 0:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Brains meet brawn in the world of chess boxing, a sport in which competitors face off on the chess board and also in the boxing ring. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday.
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- Anthropic | Sunday on 60 Minutes
- Runtime
- 0:26
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Anthropic is a $183 billion artificial intelligence company that's centered its brand around AI safety and transparency. This Sunday, Anderson Cooper visits its well-guarded San Francisco headquarters and speaks with CEO Dario Amodei about the potential dangers of AI.
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- Andy Rooney's penny test | 60 Minutes Archive
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Do Americans care about the penny? In 1986, 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney tested commuters around Grand Central to see whether they would pick one up. The late Rooney thought the coin should be eliminated. Andy's wish came true Wednesday, when the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia pressed its final penny.
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- Does making cents make sense? | 60 Minutes Archive
- Runtime
- 10:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 2008, Morley Safer reported on the debate on whether it's worth it for the U.S. Mint to continue producing copper pennies. This week, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia struck its last circulating penny.
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- Title
- Why Margaret Atwood says you need not fear her stare anymore #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “Now, I'm a nice old lady,” laughs Margaret Atwood. In her memoir, she recalls cutting a Medusa-like stare with interviewers. #margaretatwood #60minutes
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- Atwood pushes back on the idea of Canada as the 51st state #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- 60 Minutes asks Margaret Atwood about the recent chill between Canada and the U.S. as President Trump raises tariffs and threatens to turn Canada into the 51st state. #margaretatwood #canada #tariffs #51ststate
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- How motherhood changed Jane Goodall | 60 Minutes Archive
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "After I'd had my own baby, I then began to understand mother chimps much better," Jane Goodall told 60 Minutes in 2010. "Now I'm responsible for this new little life." The renowned conservationist and mother to son Hugo, nicknamed "Grub," died October 1 at the age of 91. She was honored Wednesday with a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral.
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- Title
- The quintessential test for a Canadian couple #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “If the canoe trip hadn't worked out, that would've been it,” says Margaret Atwood. Her courtship with longtime partner, the late Graeme Gibson, peaked with a canoe trip. #margaretatwood #canada #romance #marriage
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- Margaret Atwood on shaping Canada’s literary identity #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- When Margaret Atwood graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961, she says Canadian writers were encouraged to leave the country to build their careers. But she stayed and helped create the country’s now-thriving literary institutions. #margaretatwood #canada #toronto
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- Margaret Atwood’s party trick #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Author Margaret Atwood can read palms. She shows 60 Minutes and tells Jon Wertheim that he has “intuition” and he “will never be a murderous dictator, for which we are pleased.” #margaretatwood #palmreading
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- From the Canadian wilderness to literary fame #shorts
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “Hold my purse,” Margaret Atwood tells Jon Wertheim as she does a 17th-century Jacobean court curtsy she learned for a college production. #margaretatwood #theater
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- Why Margaret Atwood’s fiction keeps coming true #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Author Margaret Atwood writes by a strict rule: if it didn’t happen, somewhere, at some time, it doesn’t make it into the pages of her fiction. #margaretatwood #author
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- Atwood questions whether “The Handmaid's Tale” is her magnum opus #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “The Handmaid's Tale” author Margaret Atwood says if it weren’t for “the twists and turns of history,” including the rollback of reproductive rights in the U.S., her book “would probably be sitting on a shelf somewhere.” #margaretatwood #handmaidstale
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- Margaret Atwood’s dedication to “Half-Hanged Mary” #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- One of the dedications in “The Handmaid’s Tale” was written to a 17th-century New England woman named Mary Webster, also known as “Half-Hanged Mary.” Atwood told Mary's harrowing tale to correspondent Jon Wertheim. #margaretatwood #handmaidstale #witchtrials #author
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- Atwood fires back at would-be book-burners…literally #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Margaret Atwood, author of 64 books including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has seen her work banned for content deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, and anti-Christian. #margaretatwood #handmaidstale
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- Harvard professor: “The attack on universities is a tragic blunder.” #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “If you want to freeze society where it is, then cripple the research enterprise,” says Harvard professor Steven Pinker. #harvard #research #uspolitics
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- Harvard has not done enough to promote free speech, says Pinker #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “I think there should be more voices on the right at Harvard. I don't want Donald Trump to decide who those people are going to be or how many we should have,” says Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker, who's been outspoken about what he says is liberal bias on campus. #harvard #trump #diversityandinclusion #dei #freespeech
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- U.S. funding made lifesaving research possible #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Harvard chemist and molecular biologist David Liu invented gene editing tools that can correct and rewrite defective genes. His research could one day help hundreds of millions of people with genetic diseases, including sickle cell and muscular dystrophy. #harvard #research #geneediting #medicalbreakthrough
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- Harvard scientist defends federal research funds amid Trump criticism #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “We are doing a service for the United States because they’ve identified needs that need to be met,” says Harvard bioengineer Don Ingber, defending federal grants and contracts to universities for scientific and medical research. #harvard #medicalresearch
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- She was 13 and out of options until an experimental treatment worked #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- After leukemia treatments failed, Alyssa Tapley, at age 13, was told she would die. Then, doctors tried an experimental gene-edited therapy. She became the first human to try the treatment made possible by U.S. federal funding. Now 16, she’s cancer-free and planning her future.#leukemia #geneediting #leukemiasurvivor #medicalbreakthrough
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- Anduril’s AI-powered jet takes its first flight #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "Fury,” a jet with no cockpit and no pilot, has lifted off for the first time. Built by American defense technology startup Anduril, Fury operates almost entirely by itself, carrying out mission plans and adjusting its flight without human input.
"These fly out ahead of manned fighters, and they're able to find the enemy first, be able to engage the enemy well before a manned fighter has to be seen or is in range,” explains CEO Brian Schimpf. #anduril #usmilitary #ai #fury #fighterjet
- Title
- What inspired the outfits for “The Handmaid’s Tale” #shorts
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “Well, if you have a cult, and if you have totalitarianism, you have to have outfits.” Author Margaret Atwood broke down the people, places, and ideas that inspired her vision of the dystopian future in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” #margaretatwood #handmaidstale #author
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- What does the U.S. know about China's unmanned fighter capabilities? #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Defense-tech company Anduril built “Fury,” an unmanned jet powered by artificial intelligence and designed to engage the enemy before a manned fighter jet arrives. Founder Palmer Luckey says the U.S. is in a race with China to develop similar technology.
"We have a pretty good idea of what they're up to, and it is not going to be easy to match,” says Luckey. #fighterjet #usmilitary #ai
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- Harvard scientist: U.S. risks falling behind China in innovation #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “We are truly putting the brakes on scientific innovation in this country at a time when our ostensible adversary, China, is going faster and faster and faster,” says Harvard scientist Don Ingber. “If we can’t be the leader, we’re going to be the follower.” #harvard #medicalinnovation #scienceinnovation
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- Harvard researcher turned fundraiser: the toll of frozen grants #shorts
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “There’s now this existential threat that this could happen again,” says cancer researcher Joan Brugge, director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School. #harvard #cancerresearch #uspolitics
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- Cancer researcher calls funding cut a “gut punch” #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Harvard researcher Joan Brugge says her work has the potential to prevent breast cancer, but she was notified last spring that her federal funding was terminated. “It was just like a gut punch. My knees buckled, and I had to sit down,” she says. #harvard #cancerresearch #federalgrants #uspolitics
- Title
- Farmers feel betrayed by $40B Argentina bailout #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Struggling American farmers say they felt betrayed by President Trump's $40 billion bailout to Argentina, a key competitor, as they continue to wait for aid to save their own farms. #farming #trump #argentina #politics
