“AI #176 Part 2: Plan B” by Zvi

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research. This does not cover the release of GPT-5.6-Sol. As always, I will be taking a few days to digest what the new model has to offer and to allow others to try it and react. I will cover Sol and its capabilities early next week. I covered the GPT-5.6 system card back on June 28. This also does not cover the release of Plan A, the follow-up to AI 2027. This new scenario is a positive vision of what its authors think we should do going forwards. I do not endorse all of the recommendations or predictions of Plan A, but I do endorse reading Plan A and taking it seriously. Scott Alexander, one of those who worked on it, writes an introduction and justification here. I will have full coverage soon. Table of Contents Quiet Speculations. Will our AI regulations be ad hoc indefinitely? The Goalposts Are Dyson Spheres. This might take a little longer. People Just Say Things. Three Pills. Unpilled, AI, AGI, ASI. The Quest for Sane Regulations. You’ve [...] ---Outline:(01:08) Quiet Speculations(04:41) The Goalposts Are Dyson Spheres(08:11) People Just Say Things(08:40) Three Pills(14:52) The Quest for Sane Regulations(16:35) OpenAI National Security Principles(23:45) Greetings From The Department Of War(25:47) Chip City(27:02) Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This(34:37) Their AI Propaganda Bots(36:39) Rhetorical Innovation(38:23) You Learn(40:00) You May Be Tan And Thin And Rich But You're a Tool(44:21) Train Those Thoughts(45:16) Train Out Those Thoughts(50:02) My Own Private Idaho(51:46) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(57:04) No Space Like J-Space(01:06:50) Cooperative Alignments(01:07:15) The Lighter Side --- First published: July 10th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Av7wwErwNXdM3J68/ai-176-part-2-plan-b --- 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.