I thought Alex Hern (“a human who writes about AI, not an AI writer”) of “The Economist” was very interesting on the “Oh God what now” podcast.
That podcast is a uk-based mainly progressive political and cultural discussion (it started as “Remainiacs” wanting the UK to remain in the EU and then wishing it had) but it is usually fairly open minded and reflective and often has interesting and knowledgeable participants.
Alex Hern came across as extremely well informed, in close touch with the people developing the frontier models and I found some of his comments eye-opening (e.g. the point of investors betting on the LRMs is for their models to develop to reach the point of “self-training” so they can bootstrap something to replace themselves and solve the existing problems they have - once that happens, they can iterate that process multiple times every day and who knows what will emerge from that) and there was some excellent discussion of how AI impacts on professional jobs (e.g. 95% of what a journalist does with their time could be done by a good enough AI, but maybe the real value is in the remaining 5% when a human realises the impact of a throwaway comment and asks a question that gets the scoop, but will anyone be willing to pay a 100% salary for a 5% remaining job?)
There’s some good discussion in there for SciFi nerds too. e.g. someone talked about Asimov’s laws of robotics and Alex pointed out that all Asimov’s robot books were about how those apparently helpful laws caused disasters in practice.