Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 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


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* 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


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* 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 Trip
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/introducing-lightcone-commons?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 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 Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-178-a-fire-alarm-for-general-intelligence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-model-hacks-into-huggingface?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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