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EPISODE · Jul 23, 2026 · 1H 34M

AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence

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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:04:05 - Table of Contents* 00:07:18 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:01 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:11:13 - Fable Disproves The Jacobian Conjecture Via Counterexample* 00:15:44 - Claude Fable Will Remain In Max Plan Indefinitely* 00:17:58 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:19:02 - On Your Marks* 00:24:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:25:52 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:25:59 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:27:21 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:28:05 - Get Involved* 00:29:47 - Introducing* 00:30:50 - In Other AI News* 00:33:18 - More on Kimi K3* 00:38:28 - Show Me the Money* 00:39:11 - Quiet Speculations* 00:42:49 - Potential Trouble At UK AISI* 00:44:47 - Pick Up The Phone* 00:45:43 - OpenAI Has Some Alignment Problems* 00:52:06 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:57:29 - Chip City* 00:58:34 - The Week in Audio* 00:58:50 - People Just Say Things* 01:02:36 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:04:25 - The Rome Declaration* 01:10:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:15:04 - Anthropic Surveys Things It Calls Misalignment* 01:21:16 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:25:39 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:27:17 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-178-a-fire-alarm-for-general-intelligence?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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