Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 04:19 - System Card
* 04:50 - AI Box Experiment
* 05:24 - Maybe Cool It With Rm
* 06:59 - Preparedness Framework
* 11:59 - Glass Houses
* 13:04 - OpenAI Appears To Have Violated SB 53 In a Meaningful Way
* 15:23 - Safeguards They Did Implement
* 17:52 - Misalignment Risks and Internal Deployment
* 19:36 - The Official Pitch
* 25:35 - Inception
* 27:15 - Turn The Beat Around
* 28:34 - Codex Does Cool Things
* 30:45 - Positive Reactions
* 38:32 - Negative Reactions
* 41:03 - Codex of Ultimate Vibing
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/chatgpt-53-codex-is-also-good-at?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:24 - Table of Contents
* 00:05:54 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:30 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:07:33 - On Your Marks
* 00:10:08 - Overcoming Bias
* 00:11:08 - Choose Your Fighter
* 00:12:22 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:15:38 - AI Conversations Are Not Privileged
* 00:16:32 - Fun With Media Generation
* 00:17:35 - The Superb Owl
* 00:25:42 - A Word From The Torment Nexus
* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:39:58 - The Art of the Jailbreak
* 00:40:08 - Introducing
* 00:42:01 - In Other AI News
* 00:47:06 - Show Me the Money
* 00:48:03 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 00:58:40 - Future Shock
* 01:00:56 - Memory Lane
* 01:01:56 - Keep The Mask On Or You’re Fired
* 01:03:24 - Quiet Speculations
* 01:08:35 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:10:59 - Chip City
* 01:14:36 - The Week in Audio
* 01:14:54 - Constitutional Conversation
* 01:15:53 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:23:58 - Working On It Anyway
* 01:26:50 - The Thin Red Line
* 01:28:14 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:35:57 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs
* 01:36:57 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:37:54 - Famous Last Words
* 01:45:15 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:47:27 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-155-welcome-to-recursive-self?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:00 - On Your Marks
* 00:22:15 - Official Pitches
* 00:22:34 - It Compiles
* 00:25:58 - It Exploits
* 00:26:47 - It Lets You Catch Them All
* 00:27:11 - It Does Not Get Eaten By A Grue
* 00:28:07 - It Is Overeager
* 00:29:25 - It Builds Things
* 00:32:06 - Pro Mode
* 00:32:23 - Reactions
* 00:32:32 - Positive Reactions
* 00:46:04 - Negative Reactions
* 00:53:45 - Personality Changes
* 00:59:28 - On Writing
* 01:02:17 - They Banned Prefilling
* 01:03:36 - A Note On System Cards In General
* 01:04:45 - Listen All Y’all Its Sabotage
* 01:08:25 - The Codex of Competition
* 01:09:45 - The Niche of Gemini
* 01:11:25 - Choose Your Fighter
* 01:15:35 - Accelerando
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-46-escalates-things-quickly?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:38 - Sabotage, Deception and Evaluation Integrity
* 04:16 - Sandbagging On Dangerous Capability Evaluations
* 06:33 - Situational Awareness
* 08:20 - Inhibiting Evaluation Awareness (6.5)
* 10:07 - Self-Preference
* 11:59 - UK AISI Testing
* 13:10 - Apollo Research Testing
* 16:00 - Responsible Scaling Policy Evaluations
* 17:19 - CBRN (mostly Biology)
* 20:10 - Autonomy
* 28:07 - Autonomy Benchmarks
* 32:43 - Cyber
* 34:17 - Ship It Anyway
* 36:39 - You Are Not Ready
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-46-system-card-part-2?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:03:50 - A Three Act Play
* 00:04:53 - Safety Not Guaranteed
* 00:10:53 - Pliny Can Still Jailbreak Everything
* 00:13:01 - Transparency Is Good: The 212-Page System Card
* 00:14:07 - Mostly Harmless
* 00:18:47 - Mostly Honest
* 00:21:10 - Agentic Safety
* 00:23:29 - Prompt Injection
* 00:27:38 - Key Alignment Findings
* 00:38:10 - Behavioral Evidence (6.2)
* 00:43:33 - Reward Hacking and ‘Overly Agentic Actions’
* 00:45:53 - Metrics (six point two point five point two)
* 00:48:01 - All I Did It All For The GUI
* 00:49:14 - Case Studies and Targeted Evaluations Of Behaviors (6.3)
* 00:49:36 - Misrepresenting Tool Results
* 00:50:29 - Unexpected Language Switching
* 00:52:34 - The Ghost of Jones Foods
* 00:54:15 - Loss of Style Points
* 00:55:07 - White Box Model Diffing
* 00:55:26 - Model Welfare
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-46-system-card-part-1?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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