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EPISODE · Aug 13, 2026 · 1H 50M

AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical

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* 00:02:10 - Table of Contents* 00:05:12 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:42 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:10:07 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:18:27 - On Your Marks* 00:23:28 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:27:36 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:31:50 - Overcoming Bias* 00:32:43 - In Which I Feel Compelled To Read six thousand Words From Mark Zuckerberg* 00:41:51 - Get Involved* 00:43:06 - Slow Down There Good Buddy* 00:49:44 - Astra For The People* 00:51:36 - Watermarking* 00:52:34 - In Other AI News* 00:54:44 - Show Me the Money* 00:58:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:58:33 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:00:15 - The Institute For Marginal Low Regret Progress* 01:08:19 - Congress Asks Good Questions* 01:10:01 - The Week in Audio* 01:14:18 - People Just Say Things* 01:15:09 - I’m Telling You For The Last Time* 01:17:42 - Uncommon Knowledge* 01:21:00 - What Did They Mean By That?* 01:21:47 - Too Soon* 01:22:47 - The Three AI Pills* 01:26:44 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:35:04 - Some People Still Think The HuggingFace Hack Was a Marketing Gimmick* 01:36:23 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:44:11 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:45:05 - The Lighter Sidehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-181-astra-goes-cyber-critical?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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