AI Insider CEO: The Models Too Dangerous for You to See. Emad Mostaque - #550

Emad Mostaque built Stable Diffusion. Now he says the most powerful AI models will never be released — and we have roughly 800 days before everything changes. What the trillion-dollar labs won't tell you about the models they're keeping locked away 👇 Emad Mostaque is the founder of Stability AI and creator of Stable Diffusion. In this conversation, he explains why the gap between public AI and private AI is about to become the most important story in technology — and why most people won't realize it until it's too late. We cover: why open source can't compete with trillion-dollar labs, what happens when humans have negative cognitive value on AI teams, how ancient faith traditions are adapting to superintelligence, and the 800-day timeline Emad puts on the biggest transition in human history. Timestamps: 00:00 The models too dangerous to release 10:06 Why physics needs axioms — and AI doesn't 11:43 The MIND framework most AI researchers won't use 17:36 The universe might be a computation 30:34 Should we let AI fly planes? 39:43 AI just invented a game no human could design 44:43 Why AI will cost almost nothing in 18 months 51:46 Can religion survive superintelligence? 57:36 The AI companion problem nobody talks about 01:03:20 Why personalized AI is more dangerous than AGI 01:11:18 The forgotten link between God and science 01:26:32 800 days: what happens next 📬 Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: 🌠 Have a .edu email and live in the USA 🇺🇸? You automatically win a meteorite! meteorite: Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours: 📚 Get my books: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with productivity tips from 9 Nobel Prize winners: Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life-changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: My tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: The first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican Follow me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: 🔔

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AI Insider CEO: The Models Too Dangerous for You to See. Emad Mostaque - #550 is an episode from Into the Impossible With Brian Keating by Brian Keating .

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This episode was published on Apr 13, 2026.

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