Open Source podcasts

EleutherAI executive director Stella Biderman discusses open models, independent research and the containment of potentially dangerous AI capabilities. She argues for stronger isolation in security evaluations and examines the influence of corporate power on scientific evidence. Other topics include sovereign AI, international access to open models, the role of interfaces in perceived progress, and filtering hazardous knowledge during pretraining. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Allen Roush

Nathan Lambert discusses post-training and the prospects for open AI models, drawing on his work on OLMo at Ai2 and his writing on reinforcement learning from human feedback. Topics include capability gaps, the economics of the open ecosystem, training environments, continual learning and skepticism about recursive self-improvement. The conversation also examines research culture, concentrated talent and whether increased model spending translates into better products. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Allen Roush

Renato Alves, Senior Bioinformatics Community Manager at EMBL, discusses how open-source practices, accessible tools and research communities support reproducible life-science research. The conversation considers collaboration between experimental scientists and developers, documentation, mentoring and support roles. Episode 4 of The Knowledge Catalyst. Official episode page, transcript and resources: https://www.embl.org/about/info/open-science/renato-alves-open-source-practices-and-community-building-power-reproducible-and-collaborative-science/