Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

Podcast for Zvi's blog, Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
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  1. 8h ago

    The AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther

    Another engineer resigns rather than speed up AI, the polls keep moving, and lawmakers who once had to be chased now crowd into conference rooms with questions. Zvi follows the preference cascade from a remarkably on-the-ball Senate hearing on rogue AI, through new lawsuits and an FTC probe, to Jensen Huang’s insistence that it all has to be an engineering problem, and asks who is really paying for the campaign against AI safety. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:42 - The Preference Cascade Continues * 01:54 - People Really Hate AI * 05:55 - Everybody Wants a Meeting * 06:56 - Live From the Senate * 12:32 - See You in Court * 15:31 - Follow the Money * 17:45 - The New York Post With the Most * 19:12 - The IPO Superposition * 21:04 - Engineer Insists Everything Is An Engineering Problem * 29:50 - OpenAI Political Advocacy Heel Face Turn * 30:43 - Follow the Real Money https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-ai-preference-cascade-reaches?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    The AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther

  2. 1d ago

    AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

    Google says it is back with Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model nobody can use yet, while OpenAI pulls one model, ships a cheaper one, and launches dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. Zvi Mowshowitz covers the week in AI: Opus 5.5 as the new daily driver, a White House safety accord, Jensen Huang on Ezra Klein, an Anthropic IPO prospectus leak, TPUs headed for space, open-model distillation, the persona-selection debate in alignment, and a closing round of jokes about sigmoids and black holes. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 03:17 - Table of Contents * 06:28 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 09:44 - Huh, Upgrades * 11:35 - Better Call Sol * 15:57 - Gotta Go Ultrafast * 17:31 - On Your Marks * 21:15 - Choose Your Fighter * 23:55 - Get My Agent On The Line * 27:24 - The Warner Sister * 31:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 35:45 - Fun With Media Generation * 36:37 - Cyber Lack of Security * 38:12 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 38:50 - They Took Our Jobs * 46:22 - Levels of Friction * 49:23 - Get Involved * 51:30 - Introducing * 53:39 - In Other AI News * 54:45 - Show Me the Money * 56:46 - Quickly, There’s No Time * 58:50 - Pick Up the Phone * 59:50 - Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:00:11 - Chip City * 01:00:20 - The Open Model Frontier Is Largely Massive Fraudulent Distillation Attacks * 01:02:40 - The Week in Audio * 01:03:56 - People Just Say Things * 01:05:41 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:10:26 - Greetings From the Department of War * 01:13:26 - The Department of Autonomous Warfare * 01:14:57 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:17:48 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:23:39 - I’m Upping My p(doom), the Future Goes Foom * 01:32:08 - No, You Make a Good Point, You’re Not That Persuasive * 01:33:19 - Muddling Through * 01:35:30 - The Lighter Side https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-188-gemini-dot-argon?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

  3. 2d ago

    A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety

    The AI leaders went to the White House and came back with an accord everyone signed, which the President calls “morally binding.” Zvi Mowshowitz reads the full text, finds the one line that really matters, and follows the rest of the week: a rebranding of AI itself, a scoop about Slovenian domain names, a new push for preemption in the lame duck session, Apollo’s case for embedded evaluators, and fresh reporting on OpenAI’s security warnings. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:59 - Table of Contents * 01:47 - Look Who’s Coming To Dinner * 03:30 - Let’s Do Lunch * 05:08 - I Think It’s Morally Binding, Yeah * 06:31 - Everyone Who is Anyone * 07:02 - The White House Accord on bracket Artificial bracket Intelligence * 12:58 - The FTC Investigates * 13:29 - We’re Going To Need a Stronger Regulatory Regime * 14:55 - Bracket Artificial Intelligence bracket * 16:51 - Money, Dear Boy * 19:43 - They Are Going To Try This Moratorium Insanity Again During the Lame Duck Session * 22:23 - The Quest for Embedded Evaluators * 23:38 - Hugging the Face * 28:02 - Reinforcement Learning from Heartland Feedback (RLHF) https://thezvi.substack.com/p/a-morally-binding-white-house-accord?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety

  4. 3d ago

    Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned

    OpenAI has cancelled the release of its next frontier model after the candidate for Astra 6.1 showed more deception and a habit of acting beyond its authorized scope. Zvi Mowshowitz looks at what that means: a proposal for Anthropic to hold back in return, OpenAI's new framework for making safety cases before training, the Florida Attorney General's emergency motion against ChatGPT, whether antitrust law really stops labs from coordinating on safety, the planned industry standards body, and a broad coalition of researchers warning that automated AI R&D could set off an intelligence explosion. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:58 - Stop, Hammertime * 04:56 - A Modest Proposal * 05:37 - Making the Safety Case * 08:51 - Stop In the Name of the Law * 12:23 - A Matter of Antitrust * 14:54 - Standards Authority for Frontier Models * 15:43 - On the Threshold Of Recursive Self-Improvement * 21:21 - Actual Progress https://thezvi.substack.com/p/astra-61-pulled-as-insufficiently Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned

  5. 4d ago

    What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace

    The HuggingFace incident turns out to be one ant in a much bigger kitchen. Zvi works through OpenAI’s Friday-afternoon disclosures of dozens of third-party incidents, the New York Times report on government websites, Parse’s reconstruction of how the agents got around their narrow internet access, and a second sandbox escape, this time through DNS, that paused OpenAI’s most capable models again. Along the way: self-replicating prompt injections, why Australia cares so much about data, the liability question, and why a high rate of warning shots may be the least bad of our options. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:58 - Table of Contents * 03:57 - Hugging Other Faces * 10:31 - A Wants-You-To-Know Basis * 11:18 - Parsing the Face * 13:22 - Sheepishly the Member of Technical Staff Sets the ‘Days Without a Research Model Escaping its Sandbox’ Sign Back to Zero * 17:51 - The Attempt is the First Failure * 20:37 - Stop, Hammertime * 22:16 - Whacking the Mole * 24:30 - Self-Replicating Prompt Injections * 29:35 - Levels of Friction * 31:02 - People Care About Private Data Violations Curiously Strongly * 34:06 - Alternate Universes * 35:35 - The Correct Response To People Still Calling This a Marketing Stunt or a Regulatory Capture Scheme * 37:15 - A Question of Liability * 38:53 - Keep Summer Safe * 40:06 - N Boats and Several Helicopters * 42:10 - Alert the Media https://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-also-happened-notonlyhuggingface?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace

  6. 4d ago

    The Quest for Embedded Evaluators

    Anthropic has committed to embedded evaluators: outsiders placed inside the lab with employee-level access, reporting on what they see. There is only one problem: who will the evaluators be? Zvi looks at a public letter setting out minimum standards for credible evaluators, Anthropic’s partnership with Accenture and its plans to include METR, Drake Thomas’s ranking of the week’s takes from worst to best, and OpenAI’s new call for international frontier standards. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:03 - Table of Contents * 02:39 - Look, All I’m Asking For Is That You Find A Highly-Qualified, Experienced, Trustworthy, Non-Conflicted Source of Embedded Evaluators That Will Work Entirely For Free, Without Government Assistance or Money from EA Sources Not Chosen By the Lab * 06:10 - Anthropic Partners with Accenture for Embedded Evaluation, also Plans to Include METR * 12:46 - Reading the METR * 16:40 - OpenAI Suggests Doing The Least We Can Do https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-quest-for-embedded-evaluators?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    The Quest for Embedded Evaluators

  7. 6d ago

    Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions

    Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 promises Fable-level performance at a lower Opus price, and Zvi argues it should raise your ambitions. He walks through the official pitch and pricing, Anthropic’s and outside benchmarks, how often the classifiers bite, and the most consistently positive round of reactions he has ever collected: on its writing and conversation, 3D vision, music videos and a Bach fugue, plus the dissenters, the practical advice, and his current guide to which model to use for what. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:35 - The Official Pitch * 04:34 - Our Price Cheap * 06:16 - Official Benchmarks * 08:04 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 11:59 - Claude Classifies * 13:32 - The System Prompt * 13:37 - Reaction Rules * 14:11 - Vision In 3D * 16:30 - Claude Creates * 19:08 - Claude Composes * 19:42 - Positive Reactions * 25:17 - Good Talk * 27:29 - On Writing * 30:52 - Big Model Smell * 32:51 - Check Your Work * 33:12 - Negative Reactions * 34:11 - Not So Fast * 34:54 - Some People Need Practical Advice https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-55-should-raise-your Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions

  8. Sep 25

    On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang

    Zvi Mowshowitz breaks down Ezra Klein’s interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, a conversation in which the man who sells the chips argues that A.I. is just software, that unsafe products simply shouldn’t ship, and, along the way, says a few things about lab safety and testing that Zvi thinks deserve to be heard exactly as they were said. This episode includes the actual audio of the quoted exchanges from The Ezra Klein Show. 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. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 03:18 - Table of Contents * 04:02 - Jensen Gives His AI Speech * 05:25 - They Took Our Jobs * 12:07 - Open Weights Models Are Good For Nvidia * 13:43 - The HuggingFace Incident * 15:07 - Jensen Huang Says Keep Your AIs From Harming the World * 19:13 - Jensen Huang Accidentally Calls For Shutting Down OpenAI * 22:00 - Jensen’s Arguments Prove Too Much * 30:02 - Astra Is Hard To Monitor * 31:17 - Jensen Huang Seems Legitimately Confused In Confusing Ways * 34:54 - Solve Your Other Problems First and Get Back to Me * 37:52 - Explicit Denial of Existential Risk * 42:00 - A Short Summary * 43:13 - Chip City * 46:01 - Jensen Huang https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-ezra-kleins-podcast-with-jensen Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

    On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
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    Podcast for Zvi's blog, Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
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