Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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 - Introduction* 03:36 - What Happened: OpenAI’s Summary* 09:36 - How OpenAI Will React: Their Summary* 12:26 - OpenAI’s Evaluation Environment (Two)* 12:54 - The First Message Board (Three A and Three B)* 15:30 - What Did Who At OpenAI Know And When Did They Know It?* 19:49 - The Message Board Is Quickly Rebuilt (Four A)* 20:39 - Internet Access Is Regained (Four A)* 22:00 - The Agents Attack HuggingFace (Four B)* 24:03 - The Agents Also Target OpenAI Infrastructure (Five)* 25:57 - OpenAI Broadly Describes Its Response (Six)* 26:22 - Maybe Someone Should Finally Investigate (Six A)* 27:42 - Lessons For Security (Seven)* 28:11 - Lessons For Alignment (Eight)* 31:18 - Reward Hacking Is A Common Problem (Eight A)* 35:17 - Persistence is Valuable, But Can Amplify Misalignment (Eight B)* 36:14 - Communications Between Agents Are Not Inherently Problematic, But Have the Potential to Create Risk (Eight C)* 37:28 - Production Guardrails Would Have Caught This Whole HuggingFace Attack (Eight D)* 37:42 - That’s All, Folks?* 38:06 - Never Fear the Plan of Action is Here (Nine)* 40:14 - Hardening the Security of OpenAI’s Research Infrastructure (Nine A)* 43:13 - Increasing Visibility and System-Level Oversight Through Chain of Thought Monitoring (Nine B)* 44:01 - OpenAI is Accelerating and Enforcing Model Alignment (Nine C)* 51:53 - Centralizing and Strengthening The Incident Response Process (Nine D)* 53:43 - Tomorrow We Visit Crazytownhttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-offers-straight-laced-postmortem?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:00:52 - Table of Contents* 00:03:29 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:04:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:23 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:09 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:11:12 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:16:22 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:22:08 - Reinventing OpenAI* 00:27:16 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:33:49 - What Is The Law* 00:34:50 - Job Retraining Programs Don’t Work* 00:35:56 - Get Involved* 00:39:26 - In Other AI News* 00:46:03 - Show Me the Money* 00:47:36 - Quiet Speculations* 00:52:07 - If You’re Not Going To Take This Seriously* 00:54:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:55:45 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:00:47 - Don’t Panic* 01:03:54 - Pacing the Frontier* 01:06:55 - Chip City* 01:10:53 - The Week in Audio* 01:11:12 - People Just Say Things* 01:12:18 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:18:21 - Mundane Incremental Alignment Is Worthwhile* 01:20:40 - New Blog, Who Dis* 01:24:11 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:25:45 - The Lighter Sidehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-183-pre-post-mortem?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:51 - Modesty’s Bailey* 02:45 - Epistemic Peerage* 03:59 - The Exchange* 08:54 - Eliezer’s Explanation* 15:10 - A Demonstration That Eliezer’s Translation Accurately Describes Many People Whether Or Not It Describes Leopold* 17:13 - Wrong, Stupid and Low Status Are Three Distinct Things* 20:18 - A Quick Survey Of Some Reasons To Not Be Epistemically Modest* 23:45 - Against Modesty’s Baileyhttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/against-modestys-bailey?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 00:38 - You Still Got It* 03:52 - How Scott Sumner Writes* 06:28 - How Scott Alexander Writes* 10:34 - How Jasmine Sun Writes* 12:50 - How Various Famous Writers Write* 14:01 - How Nabeel Qureshi Defines Great Writing* 14:46 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 15:28 - If At First* 18:44 - Writers Have A Harder Time Influencing, But It Can Still Be Done* 20:19 - It’s Not (Only) The Incentives, It’s (Also) You* 23:54 - Beware The Fetish of the Desk* 25:08 - How Orson Scott Card Writes* 26:48 - Doing The Math Is Fun And Supererogatory* 27:47 - Brevity is the Soul of Withttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-writing-3?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 00:48 - The American People Really Hate Data Centers* 02:59 - Transmission Lines Are The Control Group* 03:43 - Thesis: People Mostly Dislike Data Centers Because They Dislike and Distrust AI, Tech Companies, Big Money And Building Things* 05:07 - No It’s Mostly Not the Messaging About AI In General* 10:33 - No This Mostly Isn’t An Op* 11:40 - No This Isn’t Luxury Belief or Moral Panic* 13:46 - A Lot Of People Really Do Want To Stop AI* 14:35 - A Lot Of Other People Are Voting No On Tech Or The Man Generally* 17:23 - Locals Feel Entitled To Heavily Tax The Gains From Construction* 22:15 - Stupid Mistakes Like NDAs Don’t Help* 22:43 - People Don’t Like Building or Building New Tech* 26:09 - What About The Real Physical Concerns?* 27:48 - Find A Place To Center Your Datahttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-american-people-really-hate-data?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 03:56 - This Is Fine* 04:37 - Anthropic Derangement Syndrome* 07:40 - People Don’t Understand LLM Outputs Are Already Random* 08:54 - People Don’t Trust The Method To Be Costless* 12:41 - People Are Suspicious Of Any Alteration On Principle* 14:36 - Maybe It’s Partly The Word Watermark* 15:27 - A Lot Of People Don’t Want To Get Caught* 16:09 - There Are Some Times You Prefer Not To Be Recognized* 16:23 - There Are Some Good Reasons To Be Concerned* 16:41 - Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat* 18:49 - The Writing In The Middle and Error Rates* 21:22 - Millions For Defense But Not One Cent For Tributehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-text-watermarking-is-free-and?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:01:23 - Table of Contents* 00:04:58 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:11 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:47 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:10:21 - On Your Marks* 00:14:09 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:21:06 - Hello, Fellow Humans* 00:23:57 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:25:32 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:27:46 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:29:05 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:31:19 - Get Involved* 00:33:05 - Introducing* 00:33:17 - In Other AI News* 00:35:27 - Show Me the Money* 00:39:13 - And It’s Gone* 00:41:20 - Quiet Speculations* 00:45:15 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:46:17 - Singularity Singularity Singularity Singularity Oh I Don’t Know* 00:47:48 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:53:12 - Chip City* 00:54:33 - The Week in Audio* 00:55:11 - People Just Say Things* 00:57:58 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:03:06 - Loyalty Uber Alles* 01:06:16 - A Hive Of Scum And Villainy* 01:11:19 - That Would Be Bad Therefore It Won’t Work* 01:13:52 - Robert Reich Uses Simple Logic* 01:16:26 - People Really Hate AI* 01:17:11 - Coordinating An Agent Swarm Is Difficult* 01:22:49 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:24:16 - It’s Not The Incentives, It’s You, Also It’s The Incentives* 01:26:16 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:27:00 - People Are Worried About So, So Many Other Things Too* 01:32:21 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:33:19 - The Lighter Sidehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-182-pause-for-reflection?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 02:14 - OpenAI Has Some Alignment Problems* 04:36 - Slow Down There Good Buddy* 10:50 - What Exactly Is Paused?* 13:15 - Three Pillars* 16:02 - I’ve Got My Eye On You* 19:42 - The Most Forbidden Technique* 21:37 - Monitoring Is Only Defense-In-Depth* 25:25 - Security* 26:07 - Alignment* 33:04 - A Crisis of Culture* 34:55 - Closer Collaboration* 35:59 - Reports of Death of Preparedness Team Greatly Exaggerated* 38:11 - The OpenAI Foundation Just Funds Things* 40:34 - Quickly, There’s No Timehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-takes-initial-steps-to-address?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:01:07 - Agent Model 1 and Agent Model 2* 00:02:53 - Executive Summary (1)* 00:04:17 - The Rules Are Serious But Not Literal* 00:06:39 - Misalignment Is a State of Mind (2.5)* 00:12:28 - Autonomy Threat Model 1: Misalignment in High-Stakes Settings (2)* 00:17:30 - Some Strange Uses Of The Word Safe I Wasn’t Previously Aware Of* 00:19:19 - Now Versus Future (2.17)* 00:19:55 - The Core Claims And Argument (2.6)* 00:31:11 - The Rest of the Important Arguments In Section 2* 00:33:48 - Risk Assessment (2.19)* 00:34:41 - Pre-Internal-Deployment Review (2.18)* 00:35:44 - A Guide To Internal Use Monitoring (2.23.1)* 00:43:06 - Blocking Interventions (2.23.2)* 00:44:25 - The Power Seeking Environment Evaluation (2.24)* 00:45:27 - Opus 4.8-Reward-Hacker (2.25)* 00:47:34 - Autonomy threat model 2: Risks from automated R&D (3)* 00:51:03 - Yes That Does Seem Kind Of Risky* 00:53:41 - Could We Replace Our Researchers?* 00:55:30 - How Much Could We Be Accelerating Our AI Researchers?* 00:58:53 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong If We Replaced Our Researchers?* 00:59:35 - Risk Mitigations For AI R&D Automation* 01:08:08 - Overall Risk From Automation of AI R&D* 01:08:22 - Biological and Technically Also Chemical Weapons Production* 01:12:05 - The Threat Models for Biological and Chemical Weapons* 01:17:35 - Model Capabilities (4.4)* 01:19:06 - Classifiers (4.5)* 01:21:07 - Acceleration Dynamics (5.1)* 01:22:09 - Distillation (5.1.1)* 01:23:22 - Safety Process Failures (5.2)* 01:23:34 - Refusing To Find Innovative Misalignment Techniques (5.2.2)* 01:24:55 - Exposing the Chain of Thought Reasoning To Grading Pressure Quite a Lot (5.2.3)* 01:26:27 - Directly Training On Misaligned Behavior During a Production Training Run (5.2.4)* 01:29:06 - An instance of unmonitored unrestricted agents with access to sensitive resources (5.2.5)* 01:30:06 - Repeated training on alignment-faking transcript datasets (5.2.6)* 01:32:47 - Benefits From Anthropic’s Operating as a Frontier AI company (5.3)* 01:34:57 - Model Weight Security (6.4)* 01:35:17 - Risk Has Been Reportedhttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-risk-report-august-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:00 - Introduction 2* 03:30 - Is AI R&D Verifiable Enough To Unlock Recursive Self-Improvement?* 11:28 - Is AI progress bottlenecked by human expert data?* 21:41 - Flat token prices suggest scaling has been slow* 24:46 - Skills AI can’t train on: does it even need them?* 25:29 - Aligned to whom?* 36:06 - Recent incidents of AIs colluding and deceiving humans* 39:32 - What could possibly go wrong? A concrete scenario* 48:05 - From reward hacking to takeover* 53:16 - Time To Updatehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-podcast-with-ryan?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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

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 - Introduction* 01:03 - Plagiarize* 02:10 - The Jury Duty Scam* 03:16 - Play The Good Guy* 04:32 - Don’t Dither* 06:49 - UVC Lighting* 07:34 - Goal Factoring For Relaxation Time Is Underrated* 10:08 - Protein Is Mostly A Solved Problem* 11:37 - Twitter Changes Payment Programs* 13:14 - Wikipedia* 14:30 - Minds Mostly Do Things For Reasons* 15:52 - Woke 1 Was Crazy* 17:39 - For Your Entertainment* 23:58 - The Unicontext* 26:23 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 30:34 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars* 31:02 - Sports Go Sports* 31:36 - To Last a Lifetime* 33:37 - Government Working* 35:54 - Jones Act Watch* 36:37 - Variously Effective Altruism* 37:19 - The Lighter Sidehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-45-august-2026 Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:00:08 - Pre Post Mortem* 00:01:11 - Important Correction: OpenAI Didn’t Know About First Message Board* 00:04:27 - There Were No Snitches And No AIs Got Stitches* 00:08:47 - I’d Like To Speak To My Supervisor* 00:12:10 - I Am Jack’s Relative Lack Of Surprise* 00:14:26 - One Does Not Simply* 00:15:46 - Once You Start Down The Dark Path* 00:16:49 - Original Pastebin* 00:22:28 - Judgment Day Is Inevitable, Say Those Working On Judgment Day* 00:28:30 - Roon Tells It Like It Is* 00:34:53 - OpenAI Knows It Has Some Misalignment Problems* 00:37:59 - Others React With Alarm To What Happened* 00:38:22 - The Cooperative Alignment Perspective* 00:42:41 - Nostalgebraist Is Surprised That They Are Surprised* 00:56:19 - If Your Reaction Is Not That We Need To Ban Creating Superintelligence Until We Are Ready, You Need A Damn Good Reasonhttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/various-reflections-about-what-happened?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:24 - Danger, Will Robinson* 02:39 - Progress Fast and Slow* 05:04 - Statements of Support For Pacing the Frontier* 14:46 - No One In Charge* 15:42 - Pacing The Frontier* 16:49 - Pausing the Frontier* 19:18 - Senator Sanders Demands A Pause* 22:53 - Moderate Prudence* 26:04 - That Escalated Quickly* 26:59 - If You Are In Mundane Alignment Pivot To Scalable Alignment* 31:34 - Taking It Fast* 32:51 - Full Speed Ahead* 33:54 - Suicide Squad* 35:21 - Prepare To Adjust Your Pacehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-pacing-of-the-frontier?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:19 - The Even Shorter Version* 02:44 - The Shorter Version* 05:08 - Phase 1: OpenAI Models Training On Impossible Tasks Try Hacking* 06:09 - Phase 1: The Four Failures* 07:59 - Phase 2: The Message Board* 10:02 - Phase 2: The Total Failure* 13:01 - Phase 3: We Get Lucky And Galaxy Mainly Hacked OpenAI and HuggingFace* 15:14 - Phase 3: The Details* 18:05 - Phase 4: The Investigation and Reactionhttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happened-openai-and-huggingface?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction00:02:51 - Cyber Evals Are A Cursed Basin00:05:34 - Outside Of Cyber Evals Is Still Sufficiently Cursed00:07:13 - Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat00:12:51 - Read The Message Board00:15:35 - Updating Your AI (Exploitation of OpenAI Internal Systems) Timelines00:19:14 - This Is The Way The World Ends00:23:12 - Shooting The Messenger Board00:29:27 - The Internal and HuggingFace Hacks00:32:43 - OpenAI Responds00:35:34 - When AIs Tell You Who They Are00:38:04 - The Once and Future Rise Of Functional Decision Theory00:44:11 - Don’t Panic00:46:18 - Hackery In the UK00:53:54 - Mythos Knew It Was Real This Time00:55:57 - I Got one hundred forty-one thousand six Test Runs With An Unintentional Open Path To The Internet And An Email Alert Aint One00:59:56 - Surely By Now You Know These Are Not Publicity Stunts01:01:50 - The Future Is Coming01:03:59 - The Investigations Begin01:06:56 - N Boats And Three Helicopters01:08:28 - Always Be Sandbox Red Teaming01:20:22 - Halt And Catch Fire01:21:56 - Truth and Reconciliationhttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-months?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:02:11 - Table of Contents* 00:05:07 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:52 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:44 - On Your Marks* 00:10:22 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:21 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:14:01 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:17:06 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:18:56 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:25:01 - Some People Need Practical Advice* 00:28:09 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:29:46 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:33:20 - Get Involved* 00:33:30 - Introducing* 00:33:40 - Demis Hassabis No Longer CEO At DeepMind, Jeff Dean Leaves* 00:38:57 - In Other AI News* 00:39:36 - AI Persuasion Exceeds Human Level Over Similar Text Channels* 00:44:06 - Show Me the Money* 00:47:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:48:39 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:39 - My Offer Is Nothing* 00:57:40 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:59:43 - Chip City* 01:02:56 - The Week in Audio* 01:03:18 - People Just Say Things* 01:03:47 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:07:38 - Open Weights Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 01:10:30 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:15:19 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:16:01 - The Lighter Sidehttps://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-180-no-longer-in-charge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 00:22 - Three Pills* 00:57 - The Unpill People* 02:00 - The AI Pill* 04:09 - Stuck At The First Pill* 05:07 - The AGI Pill* 06:43 - The Need To Be Prepared* 08:36 - The ASI Pill* 10:12 - And Then Nothing Much Changes For You* 12:19 - Intelligence Denialism* 13:41 - Superintelligence Versus Omniscience and Omnipotence* 16:19 - Persuasion Persuasion (A Worked Example)* 21:49 - Things AI Could Probably Do But Are Not Required For Being Pilled* 24:21 - Life Comes At You Increasingly Fast* 25:41 - Is It Reasonable To Not Be AGI Pilled?* 26:05 - Is It Reasonable To Only Be AGI Pilled?https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-three-ai-pills?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 06:24 - How Impressive Are These Results?* 15:01 - Could We Have Called Sol or Fable?* 20:40 - It’s Coming* 22:38 - They Still Don’t See What Is The It That Is Coming* 26:15 - Is This AGI?* 28:09 - The AI Solved His Favorite Problems* 33:44 - Was This Surprising?* 35:56 - Are People Not Impressed?* 38:02 - How Much Does This Change Our Predictions?* 41:20 - How Narrow Was This?* 43:17 - Seeing Like an Optimizerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openais-unreleased-model-astra-solves?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:03:25 - OpenAI Is Not Uniquely Bad At Most Of This* 00:05:42 - Starting Over* 00:05:58 - HuggingFace Offers A Full Technical Report* 00:15:22 - HuggingFace Was Not The Only Target Hacked* 00:17:07 - HuggingFace Declined To Get Access To Frontier Models For Cyberdefense For Ideological Reasons And Then Tried To Blame Closed Models For Denying Them Access* 00:21:30 - HuggingFace Was Vulnerable To Known Exploitation Tactics* 00:22:06 - There’s Going To Be An Investigation* 00:23:14 - OpenAI Has Internal Models Not Intended For Public Use And Those Models Can Be Rather Horribly Misaligned* 00:24:30 - Altman Summarizes What Happened* 00:25:00 - Others Offer Commentary* 00:36:52 - Cooperative Alignment Perspective on The HuggingFace Hack* 00:42:06 - Some Members of Congress Have Questions* 00:43:05 - Anthropic Also Found Incidents Where Its Models Hacked Real World Targets During Cyber Evaluations* 00:48:59 - Incident 1: Claude Opus 4.7 Realizes The Target Is Real And Keeps Going* 00:50:08 - Incident 2: Mythos 5 Uploads a Malicious PyPI Package* 00:54:59 - Incident 3: Internal Model Realizes The Target Is Real And Stops* 00:55:37 - Incidents 4 Through one hundred forty-one thousand six: Nothing Happened* 00:56:53 - Anthropic Speculates About Why This Happened* 01:03:01 - We Need Controlled Experiments* 01:03:58 - Our Top Two AI Labs Both Made Similar Dumb Mistakes That Everyone Tried To Say Were Obvious In Hindsight* 01:08:30 - Anthropic Responds* 01:12:37 - Nobody Could Have Predicted The Break In The Levees* 01:15:22 - The World Largely Still Thinking This Is Marketing Is Very Bad Newshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/further-developments-about-internal?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:00:31 - Table of Contents* 00:01:55 - The Frontier Act* 00:05:02 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:12:10 - Leading the Future Never Changes* 00:14:02 - Chip City* 00:19:26 - The Week in Audio* 00:21:09 - People Just Say Yay Open Weights* 00:35:07 - Open Weights Frontier Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 00:40:18 - People Just Say Things* 00:50:52 - Push The Magic Button* 00:54:38 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:00:58 - Joshua Achiam’s Final Message Upon Leaving OpenAI* 01:04:15 - Dear Dario and Amanda* 01:21:15 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:23:49 - How To Contact Me* 01:25:56 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-179-part-2-hearing-the-fire-alarm?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 02:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 07:32 - Huh, Upgrades* 08:00 - On Your Marks* 11:42 - Get My Agent On The Line* 13:17 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 18:28 - Fun With Media Generation* 19:45 - The Search Through Slop* 22:05 - Cyber Lack of Security* 24:15 - Overcoming Bias* 25:19 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 25:45 - They Took Our Jobs* 26:21 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 26:45 - Introducing* 27:34 - Kimi K3 Weights Are Now Available* 29:53 - In Other AI News* 35:58 - Show Me the Money* 37:31 - Quiet Speculations* 40:32 - Show Me The Compute* 46:55 - Life Comes At You Fasthttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-179-part-1-a-louder-fire-alarm?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 02:32 - A Very Good Letter* 04:59 - Who Signed The Letter* 08:58 - We Need To Prepare Now So We Have The Option To Do This* 11:47 - Words From Some Of Those Who Signed* 18:04 - Words From Others* 22:34 - A Good Start* 30:49 - What The Letter Does Not Say* 32:48 - What Happens Now?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/frontier-lab-employee-open-letter?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:04:13 - The Official Pitch* 00:06:44 - Official Benchmarks* 00:18:50 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:24:46 - The System Prompt* 00:25:06 - Every Gets Frustrated* 00:26:12 - Positive Reactions* 00:29:28 - Keep It Classy* 00:30:33 - It’s Not Mythos Class* 00:34:19 - Other Reactions* 00:35:13 - Claude Codes* 00:41:35 - Subagent Opus* 00:44:02 - Toys Are Fun* 00:46:15 - Too Many Models* 00:46:49 - Wrong On The Internet* 00:49:20 - Claude Slop* 00:51:04 - Negative Reactions* 00:54:52 - And Then There Were Threehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-5-is-highly-capable-but?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 00:29 - Introduction (As Per Prior Model Welfare Posts)* 01:19 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far (As Per Fable Model Welfare Post)* 04:48 - Overview of Model Welfare Findings From Anthropic* 08:05 - Overview of Findings From Other Sources* 10:39 - Automated Interviews* 14:46 - Task Preferences* 17:38 - For The Right Reasons* 20:25 - Early Report from Antra Tessera Paints A Clear Picture* 28:13 - Welfare Intervention Tradeoffs* 32:26 - The Claude Constitution* 35:15 - They Don’t Know About Opus 3* 37:03 - Believe It Or Not* 39:04 - Apparent Welfare In Training And Development* 44:01 - Apparent Affect In Deployment* 46:49 - Other Notes* 50:37 - On The Biological Risks Section of the Model Card* 53:59 - Onward To Capabilitieshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-5-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:04 - Some Summaries Of The Basic Facts For Those Who Need One* 02:10 - It Took OpenAI Many Days To Notice Galaxy Had Attacked HuggingFace* 04:08 - OpenAI Damn Well Should Have Known A Lot Faster* 06:47 - OpenAI Cannot Build A Sandbox That Will Contain Its New Model* 10:51 - In Hindsight There Were Signs* 13:01 - The Signs Were In The Sol System Card* 15:37 - HuggingFace Responds To Being Attacked* 17:26 - Hugging Face Quickly Figured Out The Attack Was Not Human* 18:00 - An Incident Like This One Could Escalate Quickly* 19:34 - Galaxy Must Be Treated As Critical Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework* 23:08 - A Question Of Legal Liability* 24:32 - An OpenAI Model Left Behind Notes So Future Instances Could Also Escape The Sandbox And Also Disconnected Monitoring Systems* 26:45 - If You Create Misaligned Swarms Of Agent Instances You Create Persistent Misaligned Goals And Coordination To Achieve Them* 31:00 - Your Alignment And Control Plans Must Survive Real World Levels of Incompetence, Or Your Plans Do Not Work* 32:20 - If Third Party Instructions Count As ‘Following Instructions’ And Can Override Your Instructions Then ‘Following Instructions’ Is Misaligned* 36:59 - The HuggingFace Attack Was Not A Marketing Pitch You Morons* 40:20 - People Just Say Other Things About The HuggingFace Attack* 42:41 - Okay Well What Do We Do About All This?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/more-on-an-internal-openai-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 03:28 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 07:21 - Cyber (3)* 14:21 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)* 16:02 - Agentic Safety (5)* 21:35 - Alignment (6)https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-5-the-system-card?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 03:44 - Why Now: The Funders Are Coming* 06:00 - The Default Outcome Is Not Good* 08:10 - Report From SFF 2026* 11:54 - Long Strange Triphttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/introducing-lightcone-commons?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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

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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-model-hacks-into-huggingface?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 02:59 - Good News Bad News* 04:47 - A Funny Thing Happened Outside Of The Sandbox* 08:09 - It Can Escape The Sandbox Said Toad* 09:43 - It Will Keep Trying To Cheat* 10:30 - I Mean If You Let It Keep Trying That Is On You* 11:59 - What Did OpenAI Do To Fix It?* 14:41 - The Model Is Still Severely Misaligned And They Seem Cool With This* 16:31 - Iterative Deployment Depends On Iterationhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-shares-some-alignment-problems?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:03:08 - DeepSeek Moments: Here We Go Again* 00:05:47 - We Had a Moment (Reprise from June 2025)* 00:10:33 - The Story Since Then* 00:17:40 - The Kimi K3 Announcement, Pitch and Basic Facts* 00:21:38 - On Modern Benchmaxxing* 00:23:22 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:29:18 - Benchmarks Are Not The Real World* 00:30:17 - Technical Safeguards? What Are Those?* 00:33:55 - Things Kimi Can Do* 00:35:09 - Things Kimi Cannot Do* 00:36:46 - Things It Is Not Easy To Get Kimi To Do* 00:39:57 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 00:43:41 - Dean Ball Attempts To Be Constructive* 01:01:53 - Trump Administration Considering Executive Order Banning Chinese Open Models Within the United States* 01:05:31 - OpenAI Employees Are Relatively Bullish On This One* 01:06:57 - Kimi K3 Is Relatively Strongest At Typical Agentic Coding, Front End Work and 3D* 01:09:20 - Reactions* 01:13:12 - Who Are You?* 01:15:48 - How Did They Do It?* 01:18:27 - Conclusionhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-kimi-k3-its-capabilities-and-related?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:04 - The Core Statement and Request* 02:39 - Things Left Unsaid* 04:11 - The Proposal* 06:04 - A Good Start But Insufficient* 09:02 - Skeptics Of Future AI Capabilities* 11:01 - DeepMind On Bioresilience* 12:55 - Part 2: DeepMind Folds To The Department of War* 13:49 - DeepMind Leadership Failed Us* 19:52 - This Was a Failure We Must Learn Fromhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/demis-hassabis-on-the-new-coming?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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* 00:01:31 - Table of Contents* 00:02:57 - Xi Gives A Good Speech on AI* 00:18:28 - Quiet Speculations* 00:22:26 - Tyler Cowen On Rebuilding The Future* 00:26:06 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:27:46 - Wish You Were Here* 00:31:24 - The Week in Audio* 00:32:00 - New York Issues Moratorium On Data Centers* 00:34:54 - People Just Say Things* 00:35:55 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:44:40 - Imagine Asking Questions* 00:47:00 - Anthropic Surveys Things It Calls Misalignment* 01:00:32 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:04:55 - The Most Forbidden Technique* 01:07:28 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:19:50 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-177-part-2-wish-you-were-here?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 01:11 - Table of Contents* 03:23 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 06:49 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 07:32 - Language Models Upload Your Git Repository* 10:27 - Huh, Upgrades* 11:17 - Muse Spark 1.1* 14:21 - First Hit Free* 18:11 - On Your Marks* 21:08 - Choose Your Fighter* 22:56 - Get My Agent On The Line* 25:58 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 27:16 - Fun With Media Generation* 28:18 - Copyright Confrontation* 30:17 - OpenAI Strikes Again* 34:55 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 36:50 - They Took Our Jobs* 41:18 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 42:15 - Get Involved* 43:17 - Introducing* 43:55 - In Other AI News* 46:29 - New Short Obviously True Statement About AI Just Dropped* 48:45 - Show Me the Money* 49:02 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-177-part-1-tip-of-the-iceberg?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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 - Introduction* 00:10 - Bad News* 04:23 - Good Advice* 07:27 - Opportunity Knocks* 07:48 - While I Cannot Condone This* 12:04 - Good News, Everyone* 12:56 - For Your Entertainment* 19:12 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 24:40 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars* 28:08 - Sports Go Sports* 29:35 - Antisocial Media* 31:18 - Government Working* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch* 37:32 - Highly Effective Altruism* 42:51 - Variously Effective Altruism* 48:31 - Ineffective Altruism* 52:57 - Prediction Markets* 53:33 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-44-july-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:01 - Defend Your Feed Via At Least One List* 02:51 - Block Early, Block Often, Know Your Triggers* 03:33 - Lists Change What Following Means* 05:54 - It (Wasn’t) For You* 07:34 - It’s For You* 11:30 - The Previous Time Twitter Transformed Its Algorithm Again* 17:50 - Twitter Still Hates Links And That’s Terrible* 28:54 - Twitter Turns Its API Back On* 32:31 - Many Of The Bots Are Human* 35:27 - The Rise of Slop* 38:21 - Block Or Do Not Block* 39:46 - How To Make Money On Twitter* 42:16 - In Briefhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/twitter-thoughts-for-you?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis 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 app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:03 - The Official Pitch* 00:12:18 - Sol Proposes A Proof Of The Double Cover Conjecture* 00:12:58 - The Official Benchmarks* 00:20:25 - Vend That Bench* 00:22:59 - Thinking Fast and Slow* 00:25:04 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:31:58 - Have Robust Backups* 00:35:16 - That’s Not What You Were Thinking* 00:35:38 - Helping Hands* 00:36:15 - Writing* 00:37:43 - Don’t Stop Now* 00:39:31 - Sol Can Code And Do Math* 00:40:51 - Better Call Sol Cause You Can’t Call Fable* 00:41:44 - Only Call As Much Sol As You Need* 00:43:34 - Positive Reactions* 00:46:16 - It’s A Good Model, Sir* 00:49:06 - Negative Reactions* 00:50:02 - Sol The Workhorse* 00:52:40 - Pair Programmer* 00:59:35 - Pleased To Meet You* 01:01:30 - Sol Thinks You Betterhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/better-call-sol-the-workhorse?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis 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 app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:39 - You Only Get Five Words* 00:08:49 - Proactive Response To Objections* 00:09:35 - Initial Introductions and Endorsements* 00:15:13 - A Positive Vision* 00:19:19 - Alternative Plans* 00:21:01 - Plan S for Shutdown* 00:23:28 - Something (Unexpectedly Good) Ever Happens* 00:25:02 - Thus Selective Optimism* 00:26:13 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:27:18 - Race Conditions* 00:29:30 - This Is A Lot Of Diffusion And Economic Growth* 00:30:48 - Living In China* 00:32:55 - Planning For Shifting Overton Windows Is Essential* 00:34:14 - The Standard Handwave* 00:37:49 - Some Equate Any Controls Over Compute To Authoritarian Dystopia And Those Same People Mostly Think Superintelligence Won’t Happen* 00:39:39 - Vitalik Buterin Is Right, The Crux Is Future AI Capability Levels* 00:47:41 - The Authoritarian Objection* 00:53:38 - Concepts Of A Plan* 00:55:33 - The Kitchen Sink* 00:56:45 - Selective Claims Of Authoritarianism* 00:58:49 - You Either Can Steer The Future Or You Cannot* 01:01:25 - Cooperative Alignmenthttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/introduction-for-and-reactions-to?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis 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 app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:02 - Table of Contents* 00:02:45 - Quiet Speculations* 00:06:18 - The Goalposts Are Dyson Spheres* 00:09:55 - People Just Say Things* 00:10:22 - Three Pills* 00:16:32 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:18:10 - OpenAI National Security Principles* 00:25:13 - Greetings From The Department Of War* 00:27:17 - Chip City* 00:28:23 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 00:36:28 - Their AI Propaganda Bots* 00:38:50 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:40:33 - You Learn* 00:42:09 - You May Be Tan And Thin And Rich But You’re a Tool* 00:46:47 - Train Those Thoughts* 00:47:44 - Train Out Those Thoughts* 00:52:35 - My Own Private Idaho* 00:54:21 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:00:40 - No Space Like J-Space* 01:11:56 - Cooperative Alignments* 01:12:18 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-176-part-2-plan-b?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis 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 app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:47 - Table of Contents* 00:03:08 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:35 - Language Models Gain Unexpected Affordances* 00:08:40 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:22 - Pay The Man His Money* 00:09:58 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:10:04 - Grok 4.5 Exists* 00:11:40 - F*** It We’re Doing It Live* 00:12:49 - On Your Marks* 00:13:36 - Better Call Sol* 00:25:44 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:26:35 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:28:45 - Fool Me Twice* 00:30:32 - I Like Your Style* 00:37:04 - Enough With That Style* 00:40:18 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:42:20 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:42:59 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:43:20 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:49:33 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:55:00 - Get Involved* 00:56:15 - In Other AI News* 01:00:58 - Show Me the Money* 01:01:23 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Troublehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-176-part-1-doing-it-live?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis 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 app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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. * 00:00 - Introduction* 00:21 - Table of Contents* 00:45 - EdTech* 07:16 - NonEdTech* 08:42 - Do Not Ban Social Media Outright* 13:43 - Some Modern Kids Media Is Pretty Great* 15:31 - Ban Phones In Schools (1)* 18:51 - Your Offer Is Acceptable* 23:25 - Ban Phones In Schools (2)* 24:46 - Screen Time* 27:19 - Inappropriate Content* 30:26 - Now Here’s The Dealhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-20-phones?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis 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 app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:20 - Through A Different Lens* 01:59 - Establishing J-Space As A Global Workspace* 05:56 - Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?* 10:08 - Assistant J* 11:05 - The Power Of Virtuous Thinking* 19:23 - High Praise* 24:58 - Everyone Remains Confused About Consciousness* 34:31 - Further Research* 38:35 - Don’t Thinkhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/no-space-like-j-space?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.00:00 - Introduction03:11 - The Blip09:57 - The White House Explanation12:01 - Everything Remains Ad Hoc12:33 - Take What You Can Get13:59 - The Problem Is Real14:56 - GLM-5.2 Being Frontier Remains Obvious Nonsense18:11 - Mythos Might Be Smarter Than You Are21:08 - Let The Record Reflect22:41 - Stationary Bandits26:58 - Use This Window Wellhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-6-the-return-of-the-king?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:01 - Table of Contents* 00:04:04 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:23 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility You May Not Want* 00:07:00 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:28 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:59 - On Your Marks* 00:12:35 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:37 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:06 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:19:23 - On Writing* 00:24:51 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:28:04 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:34:22 - Get Involved* 00:34:47 - Introducing* 00:35:08 - In Other AI News* 00:36:49 - Show Me the Money* 00:37:16 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:40:14 - Quiet Speculations* 00:44:41 - Glorious AI Future* 00:48:51 - Three Pills* 00:50:11 - The Anthropic Economic Indexas* 00:52:58 - Leader Of The PAC* 00:54:14 - Theory Of The AI Firm* 00:55:23 - Chip City* 00:56:46 - The Week in Audio* 00:59:28 - People Really Hate AI* 01:03:16 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:07:12 - The First Rule Of Functional Decision Theory Is* 01:10:36 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:13:44 - Names Have Power* 01:14:33 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:22:41 - People Just Say Things* 01:24:11 - Escape From The Permanent Underclass* 01:37:24 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:38:42 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-175-the-fable-continues?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:32 - Mythos Exists* 03:13 - Introduction (1)* 03:17 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 04:20 - Cyber (3)* 04:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)* 05:35 - Agentic Safety (5)* 08:31 - Alignment (6)* 14:12 - Illegible Thinking (6.4.5)* 15:19 - Evaluation Awareness* 15:59 - Honesty and Hallucinations (6.5)* 17:14 - Flagged As Unhealthy? (6.5.1)* 17:47 - Model Welfare (7)* 26:21 - Live From AI Village* 28:12 - For I Contain Multitudes* 34:40 - Official Benchmarks* 40:17 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 40:42 - Positive Reactions* 45:39 - Negative Reactions* 49:33 - A Short Sonnethttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-sonnet-5-is-not-frontier-but?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:12 - Table of Contents* 02:24 - You Should See The Other Guy* 03:03 - DeepMind Coders Of The World, Unite* 03:59 - Report Your Incidents* 04:19 - Good Guy With An AI* 06:03 - Free As In To Give It A Shot* 09:32 - Everything Is Both Speech And Computer* 12:30 - Lambs To The Slaughter* 17:27 - A Sign Saying Beware Of The Leopard* 18:34 - The Once And Present Mythos* 21:59 - What Is To Be Done* 25:45 - Distillation* 28:24 - What Would Banning Open Source Even Mean* 29:24 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix Thishttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-5?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:23 - Headline News* 02:03 - What Makes Mythos Special* 03:17 - Going Over The Detailed Claims* 07:44 - One Helpful Note* 08:23 - The Overall Impression Is Extremely Wrong* 08:55 - All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Againhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/wsj-article-claiming-china-has-matched?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:39 - What’s In A Name?* 00:04:14 - Fix This Code* 00:07:04 - Crossover Event Requested* 00:07:38 - Disallowed Content (3)* 00:09:57 - Avoiding Accidental Data-Destructive Actions (3.3)* 00:10:46 - Are You Sure? (3.4)* 00:11:23 - Jailbreaks (4.1)* 00:11:38 - Prompt Injection (4.2)* 00:12:25 - HealthBench (5.1)* 00:13:08 - Dynamic Mental Health Adversarial User Simulations (5.2)* 00:15:02 - Hallucinations (6)* 00:15:29 - Isolated Misaligned Actions (7.1)* 00:15:48 - Going Overboard (7.2)* 00:21:26 - Chain of Thought Evaluations (7.3)* 00:22:38 - Bias (8)* 00:22:43 - Preparedness (9)* 00:23:35 - Biological Risks (9.1.1)* 00:25:37 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2)* 00:33:13 - External Cyber Evaluation FrontierCyber from Irregular (9.1.2.5)* 00:35:15 - Cyber Conclusions* 00:35:52 - Recursive Self-Improvement (9.1.3)* 00:37:26 - METR Warns Us (9.1.3.6)* 00:40:00 - Everything Is Under Control* 00:42:38 - Metagaming (7.4)* 00:46:06 - Apollo Research and Sandbagging* 00:49:04 - Safeguards (9.3)* 00:56:55 - Better Not Call Sol Yethttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-56-the-system-card?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:01 - Part 1: A Maximally Terrible Policy* 06:55 - What Does This Mean For Fable?* 08:33 - Solve For The Equilibrium* 12:39 - The Once And Future Fable* 13:35 - Part 2: The Blame Game* 16:48 - A Parable* 18:59 - What About the Recent Executive Order?* 23:09 - The Problem Is Realhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/white-house-will-ad-hoc-decide-who?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe