Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 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 Optimizer
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openais-unreleased-model-astra-solves?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 News
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/further-developments-about-internal?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-179-part-2-hearing-the-fire-alarm?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Fast
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-179-part-1-a-louder-fire-alarm?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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


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