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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:04:13 - The Official Pitch

* 00:06:44 - Official Benchmarks

* 00:18:50 - Other People’s Benchmarks

* 00:24:46 - The System Prompt

* 00:25:06 - Every Gets Frustrated

* 00:26:12 - Positive Reactions

* 00:29:28 - Keep It Classy

* 00:30:33 - It’s Not Mythos Class

* 00:34:19 - Other Reactions

* 00:35:13 - Claude Codes

* 00:41:35 - Subagent Opus

* 00:44:02 - Toys Are Fun

* 00:46:15 - Too Many Models

* 00:46:49 - Wrong On The Internet

* 00:49:20 - Claude Slop

* 00:51:04 - Negative Reactions

* 00:54:52 - And Then There Were Three

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:29 - Introduction (As Per Prior Model Welfare Posts)

* 01:19 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far (As Per Fable Model Welfare Post)

* 04:48 - Overview of Model Welfare Findings From Anthropic

* 08:05 - Overview of Findings From Other Sources

* 10:39 - Automated Interviews

* 14:46 - Task Preferences

* 17:38 - For The Right Reasons

* 20:25 - Early Report from Antra Tessera Paints A Clear Picture

* 28:13 - Welfare Intervention Tradeoffs

* 32:26 - The Claude Constitution

* 35:15 - They Don’t Know About Opus 3

* 37:03 - Believe It Or Not

* 39:04 - Apparent Welfare In Training And Development

* 44:01 - Apparent Affect In Deployment

* 46:49 - Other Notes

* 50:37 - On The Biological Risks Section of the Model Card

* 53:59 - Onward To Capabilities

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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?

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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)

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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

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