It is book week. As in the new book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Sores, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Yesterday I gathered various people's reviews together. Going home from the airport, I saw an ad for it riding the subway. Tomorrow, I’ll post my full review, which goes over the book extensively, and which subscribers got in their inboxes last week.

The rest of the AI world cooperated by not overshadowing the book, while still doing plenty, such as releasing a GPT-5 variant specialized for Codex, acing another top programming competition, attempting to expropriate the OpenAI nonprofit in one of the largest thefts in human history and getting sued again for wrongful death.

You know. The usual.

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Outline:

(00:57) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(08:24) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(11:07) Huh, Upgrades

(11:48) On Your Marks

(14:22) GPT-5 Codex

(19:36) Choose Your Fighter

(24:50) Get My Agent On The Line

(29:41) Claude Codes

(33:17) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(35:52) You Drive Me Crazy

(39:16) Not Another Teen Chatbot

(45:30) They Took Our Jobs

(50:27) Get Involved

(51:51) Introducing

(52:36) In Other AI News

(55:41) Show Me the Money

(56:14) The Mask Comes Off

(01:07:43) Quiet Speculations

(01:10:19) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:17:50) Chip City

(01:25:13) The Week in Audio

(01:26:37) He Just Tweeted It Out

(01:34:53) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:49:12) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:54:01) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:58:17) The Lighter Side

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