“AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins” by Zvi

The era of training frontier models and then releasing them whenever you wanted? That was fun while it lasted. It looks likely to be over now. The White House wants to get an advance look and have the option to veto your release decisions, and it has used this veto on an expansion of access to Mythos. We have additional clarity on what that might mean and it does not look good. Hassett explicitly used the FDA as a parallel, which is the actual worst option unless your goal is to strange or pause AI development in America, without a parallel action from China. That doesn’t seem like a great plan to me and Susie Wiles is out doing damage control. The part where we are talking to China to coordinate model access restrictions does seem better. Anthropic continues its explosive growth, and it continues to strike compute deals. In addition to a long term expanded deal with Google, Anthropic is now leasing SpaceX's Colossus 1, which has let them expand usage limits immediately, and Elon Musk is now speaking positively about Anthropic, including its motivations. This comes as we get testimony in the Musk [...] ---Outline:(01:45) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(02:45) Language Models Dont Offer Mundane Utility(05:09) Huh, Upgrades(05:37) Grok 4.3 Exists But xAI Kind Of Doesnt(07:02) Show Me The Compute(13:23) On Your Marks(14:05) Copyright Confrontation(14:19) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(15:57) Fun With Media Generation(16:36) A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer(16:48) Cyber Lack of Security(17:05) They Took Our Jobs(17:39) The Art of the Jailbreak(17:49) Introducing(18:09) Musk v OpenAI(21:14) Show Me the Money(23:03) Peace In Our Time(26:18) Quiet Speculations(28:24) Quickly, Theres No Time(30:35) The Quest for Sane Regulations(34:04) People Really Hate AI(34:53) Chip City(35:05) The Week in Audio(36:49) People Just Say Things(40:22) People Just Publish Things(41:05) Google Sells Out(42:08) Greetings From Project Glasswing(44:57) The Prior Restraint Era Begins(56:42) Is This Even Legal?(59:49) Pick Up The Phone(01:03:27) Rhetorical Innovation(01:04:05) People On The Internet Sometimes Lie(01:07:14) Goblin Mode(01:08:34) The Mask Comes Off(01:16:51) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:20:00) Some Penalties May Apply(01:22:28) Messages From Janusworld(01:22:41) Good Advice(01:23:42) The Lighter Side --- First published: May 7th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rn3iKuDcE4SiSg4DW/ai-167-the-prior-restraint-era-begins --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.