⚖️ We Are All Middle Managers of Aliens Now: On the 2026 International AI Safety Report — and why you should read it

Send us Fan Mail📖 Read the companion articleI want you to do something uncomfortable.Look at your phone. The one on your desk right now, screen-down, pretending to sleep. Think about everything you did on it yesterday — the email you drafted, the form you submitted, the search you ran, the appointment you booked. Now ask yourself, with genuine curiosity rather than dread: how many of those actions did a machine take on your behalf, reasoning its way through options you never reviewed?International AI Safety Report 2026and 23 other references for contextThis is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets EmpathyIndependent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter.  Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas. Support the showDisclosure: This podcast uses AI-generated synthetic voices for a material portion of the audio content, in line with Apple Podcasts guidelines. We make rigorous science accessible, accurate, and unforgettable.Produced by Michelle Bruecker and Scott Bleackley, it features reviews of emerging research and ideas from leading thinkers, curated under our creative direction with AI assistance for voice, imagery, and composition. Systemic voices and illustrative images of people are representative tools, not depictions of specific individuals.We dive deep into peer-reviewed research, pre-prints, and major scientific works—then bring them to life through the stories of the researchers themselves. Complex ideas become clear. Obscure discoveries become conversation starters. And you walk away understanding not just what scientists discovered, but why it matters and how they got there.Independent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter.  Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.Spoken word, short and sweet, with rhythm and a catchy beat.http://tinyurl.com/stonefolksongs