“AI #173: AI Pauses” by Zvi

A lot of things are always happening. Only one story matters. Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were shut down, by the White House, via an imposition of export controls at 5:23pm on Friday, wreaking all sorts of havoc. There was then a scramble. Anthropic flew its people out to Washington, where they met with the Trump Administration on Monday, with hopes expressed that this could be quickly resolved. What caused this? The Trump Administration said it was due to a jailbreak of Fable, which we now know they were told about by Amazon. They called Dario Amodei, who they complain did not take the issue sufficiently seriously. Rather than shutting down the model, he tried to explain why he saw no need to do that. This did not go well. The ‘jailbreak’ turns out to be saying ‘fix this code,’ and the demo was getting Fable to find the same weaknesses that were easily identified by Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. As in, Fable is willing to work to fix security vulnerabilities if you give it a codebase. From this information and process, you could then figure out what the original bug in the [...] ---Outline:(02:40) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(02:51) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility(03:14) Huh, Upgrades(03:44) On Your Marks(08:43) VirtueBench(10:40) Choose Your Fighter(11:20) Papers, Please(11:48) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(13:32) Goodhart's Law Strikes Again(14:23) They Took Our Jobs(16:49) The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner(19:16) Introducing(20:36) In Other AI News(22:47) Show Me the Money(23:18) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble(24:51) Quiet Speculations(27:15) People Just Say Things(30:30) The Widened Path(32:34) Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions(38:36) Quickly, There's No Time(39:50) Policy On The AI Exponential(49:36) Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks(50:46) Obligations of Developers(55:11) Societal Resilience Measures(56:20) Economic Policy Framework(01:01:26) White House Pauses AI Deployment(01:10:14) The Once And Future Fable(01:15:29) How To Fix This Code(01:17:14) The End of Privacy(01:18:45) AIs Have Preferences(01:20:56) The Quest for Sane Regulations(01:23:37) Chip City(01:24:14) The Week in Audio(01:24:25) Rhetorical Innovation(01:25:03) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:26:40) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone(01:27:53) The Lighter Side The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 18th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P7jBmCeBDq2ebojWY/ai-173-ai-pauses --- 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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