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EPISODE · May 21, 2026 · 1H 35M

AI #169: New Knowledge

from Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast · host Askwho Casts AI

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:42 - Do The Math* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:20 - Get Involved* 00:39:20 - Introducing* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:00:16 - Chip City* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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