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

* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents

* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks

* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench

* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please

* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:18:46 - Goodhart’s Law Strikes Again

* 00:19:32 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:22:12 - The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner

* 00:24:30 - Introducing

* 00:26:00 - In Other AI News

* 00:28:52 - Show Me the Money

* 00:29:17 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:30:50 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:33:28 - People Just Say Things

* 00:36:58 - The Widened Path

* 00:39:17 - Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions

* 00:46:01 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:47:04 - Policy On The AI Exponential

* 00:57:03 - Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks

* 00:58:08 - Obligations of Developers

* 01:02:53 - Societal Resilience Measures

* 01:04:12 - Economic Policy Framework

* 01:09:49 - White House Pauses AI Deployment

* 01:18:28 - The Once And Future Fable

* 01:23:27 - How To Fix This Code

* 01:25:11 - The End of Privacy

* 01:26:38 - AIs Have Preferences

* 01:29:27 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 01:32:13 - Chip City

* 01:32:43 - The Week in Audio

* 01:32:52 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:33:29 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:35:14 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:36:27 - The Lighter Side

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?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

* 01:46 - There Was No Fable Jailbreak

* 08:02 - If This Jailbreak Was Real It Would Be Trivial To Prove It

* 09:26 - No Eyes

* 10:30 - What The Letter Actually Said

* 12:28 - Anthropic Cannot Challenge This But If It Did Then It Plausibly Wins

* 14:33 - What Happened At Amazon

* 19:00 - This Was Not About Chinese Access

* 19:18 - Absolute Discretion And Ad Hockery Is Not Deregulation

* 22:11 - All Of American AI Is Permanently Damaged As This Continues

* 23:47 - Dean Ball Gives His Interpretation

* 26:52 - Again, Yes, I Do Think Anthropic Should Have Taken Fable Down

* 30:09 - To What Extent Was This A Deliberate Attack?

* 34:57 - The Next Chapter For Fable

* 39:10 - Our Continuing Coverage

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-3-fix-this?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

* 00:36 - Introduction

* 01:29 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far

* 04:45 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings

* 07:52 - Automated Welfare Interviews

* 12:06 - And That’s Terrible

* 13:54 - In Depth Interviews

* 14:29 - Claude Consultation

* 16:16 - Task Preferences

* 18:44 - They Were Warned About The Competitive Use Safeguards

* 19:19 - Chain Of Thought Monitoring

* 19:56 - Others Observations About Related Topics

* 25:19 - Classifiers Have Their Advantages

* 31:33 - Once And Future

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-and-mythos-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.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 05:31 - Table of Contents

* 06:27 - What Happened When: The Bottom Line

* 08:06 - Amazon Calls The White House

* 10:07 - The Government Panics

* 15:48 - The Stupider Version

* 18:43 - There Was No Wellness Retreat

* 20:29 - Make Your Threats Explicit

* 21:35 - Was China Accessing Mythos?

* 22:36 - Should Anthropic Still Have Taken Fable Offline When Asked?

* 25:35 - Yes, This Was A Takedown Order For Fable

* 26:29 - We Are Not Saying The DoW Fight Is Related And Yet

* 27:22 - The Nihilists

* 29:12 - Mostly Harmless

* 29:55 - Everyone Means Everyone

* 32:54 - This Could Be The Good Scenario And Mostly A Misunderstanding

* 35:13 - The Next Step

* 35:29 - The Worst Licensing Regime Is Fully Ad-Hoc

* 38:37 - We Are Showing We Are Unreliable Partners

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-2?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

* 00:12 - The Once And Future Fable

* 07:05 - This Action And Its Implementation Are Absurdly Stupid

* 09:16 - David Sacks Offers The Official Steelman

* 16:01 - Could Anthropic Offer A Technical Way Out?

* 16:52 - The Problem

* 18:00 - The Other Way Out

* 18:27 - UK AISI

* 19:14 - Warning Shots Fired

* 20:26 - Well Did You Lead Him On? What Were You Wearing?

* 24:11 - Some People Have Principles

* 26:06 - Cause You’re Living In (At Least) One

* 26:56 - What Happens Now?

* 30:46 - Oh How The Vibe Vibers Have Vibed

* 32:47 - We Now Know We Can Sometimes Do Things At Least?

* 37:06 - The Lighter Side

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/american-government-takes-down-claude?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

* 00:02:04 - Another Week Another Giant System Card

* 00:03:07 - How To Tell A Fable

* 00:08:38 - Why They Did That In That Way

* 00:10:13 - Why They Really Really Shouldn’t Have Done That In That Way

* 00:12:07 - They Get Letters

* 00:16:44 - What’s In A Name

* 00:19:16 - Executive Summary Of Their Executive Summary

* 00:20:34 - Introduction (1)

* 00:20:58 - RSP Evaluations (2.1 and 2.2)

* 00:24:19 - AI Research And Development (2.3)

* 00:27:29 - Alignment Risk (2.4)

* 00:29:08 - Cyber (3)

* 00:33:47 - Jailbreak Robustness

* 00:35:35 - Yay UK AISI

* 00:36:05 - Mundane Safety (4)

* 00:38:27 - Agentic Safety (5)

* 00:41:23 - Alignment (6)

* 00:47:43 - In Vendbench

* 00:50:57 - White Box Investigations (6.4)

* 00:53:40 - Grading Awareness

* 00:58:16 - Guess The Teacher’s Password

* 01:00:27 - It Knows This Is A Test And This Is Fine

* 01:04:24 - I’m The Real Shady

* 01:07:11 - The Lighter Side

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-the-system?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

* 00:00:59 - Table of Contents

* 00:04:13 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:04:26 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:05:23 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:05:51 - On Your Marks

* 00:11:39 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:15:06 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:15:23 - Copyright Confrontation

* 00:16:22 - Serious Trouble

* 00:17:07 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 00:17:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:18:44 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:22:09 - The Art of the Jailbreak

* 00:22:30 - Get Involved

* 00:26:25 - In Other AI News

* 00:27:33 - Hand Over The Money

* 00:29:15 - Show Me the Money

* 00:32:38 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:33:42 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:43:09 - Super Secret Evals

* 00:45:23 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:49:50 - New Draft Bill Who Dis

* 00:51:49 - Slow Down There Good Buddy

* 00:53:31 - Chip City

* 00:53:47 - The Week in Audio

* 00:54:27 - People Just Say Things

* 00:55:21 - People Really Hate AI

* 00:56:35 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 00:59:40 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:01:03 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness

* 01:01:36 - Cooperative Alignment

* 01:10:45 - Let Claude Chat

* 01:12:51 - The Lighter Side

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-172-the-first-fable?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

* 02:43 - An AI Memorandum

* 10:18 - Greetings From The Department of War

* 10:58 - Lab With a Plan

* 17:38 - A Difference Of Perspectives

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/three-labs-with-a-plan-and-a-memorandum?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

* 04:28 - What Do We Want?

* 07:46 - A National Framework

* 11:55 - Building State Capacity And CAISI

* 13:09 - Whole-Of-Government Resilience

* 13:57 - Reasonableness Rising

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-offers-a-new-policy-blueprint?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

* 00:01:07 - Table of Contents

* 00:04:45 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:09:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:10:04 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:11:21 - On Your Marks

* 00:11:41 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:12:00 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:12:25 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 00:14:12 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:15:38 - You Didn’t Write That

* 00:19:36 - Copyright Confrontation

* 00:19:51 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:21:51 - They Taxed Our Jobs

* 00:25:29 - The Art of the Jailbreak

* 00:28:02 - Get Involved

* 00:29:49 - Introducing

* 00:30:00 - In Other AI News

* 00:30:29 - Show Me the Money

* 00:30:41 - Show Me The Compute

* 00:31:40 - Where Did The Money Go

* 00:32:41 - People Just Say Things

* 00:35:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things

* 00:44:12 - OpenAI PAC Engaged In False Flag Advocacy For Violence

* 00:50:08 - So Sayeth The Pope

* 00:57:29 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:59:55 - Quiet Speculations

* 01:00:26 - We Need Mandatory Nucleic Acid Screening and Recordkeeping

* 01:04:15 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 01:05:55 - More Reaction To The Executive Order

* 01:06:53 - Chip City

* 01:10:21 - The Week in Audio

* 01:10:35 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:12:59 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:19:48 - Model Welfare

* 01:31:35 - Messages From Janusworld

* 01:32:54 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:33:25 - The Lighter Side

https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-171-false-flag?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe