“AI #172: The First Fable” by Zvi

A lot happened this week, including a great trip out to Lighthaven. The main event, the one that matters, was the release of Claude Fable 5. The public now has its hands on a Mythos-class model, alongside strong safeguards. As always with a new model, I take a few days to draw in reactions, try out the model and read the system card, before I offer my takes, other than to say this is an extremely strong model. Full coverage of Mythos begins tomorrow with the model card, which will include discussion of the controversy over model safeguards. This post is instead about all the things that did not involve Claude Fable. Due to the time crunch from Claude Fable, I am also postponing my coverage of Dario Amodei's new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential, which I have not yet read. Table of Contents Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Farming and on demand mini-books. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Don’t skip your primary sources. Huh, Upgrades. Google drops prices, Claude connector devs get a dashboard. On Your Marks. Agents’ Last Exam and the need to correct for [...] ---Outline:(01:00) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(01:15) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility(02:31) Huh, Upgrades(03:00) On Your Marks(07:37) Choose Your Fighter(10:56) Get My Agent On The Line(11:14) Copyright Confrontation(12:14) Serious Trouble(13:01) Cyber Lack of Security(13:21) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer(14:34) They Took Our Jobs(17:48) The Art of the Jailbreak(18:08) Get Involved(21:54) In Other AI News(23:02) Hand Over The Money(24:37) Show Me the Money(27:50) Quiet Speculations(28:50) Quickly, There's No Time(38:37) Super Secret Evals(40:47) The Quest for Sane Regulations(45:15) New Draft Bill Who Dis(47:07) Slow Down There Good Buddy(48:58) Chip City(49:14) The Week in Audio(49:54) People Just Say Things(50:43) People Really Hate AI(51:42) Rhetorical Innovation(54:50) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(56:15) Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness(56:54) Cooperative Alignment(01:02:23) Let Claude Chat(01:04:31) The Lighter Side --- First published: June 11th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BHwbunvkgNojAa3HC/ai-172-the-first-fable --- 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.

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