Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

MAY 29, 2026

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* 01:15 - Table of Contents* 02:32 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary* 03:58 - Introduction (1)* 04:03 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 05:11 - Move That Goalpost* 07:11 - The Failures Are News* 09:21 - Alignment Risk Slowly Rises* 10:52 - New Risk Pathways Just Dropped* 13:28 - Cyber (3)* 14:27 - Harmful Requests (4.1)* 16:46 - We Need To Talk (4.2 and 4.3)* 19:56 - Overcoming Bias (4.4)* 21:59 - Agentic Safety (5)* 24:38 - Prompt Injection (5.2)* 31:08 - Alignment (6)* 32:23 - Looking For Problems* 33:54 - Who Watches The Training (6.2.2)* 38:02 - Automated Behavioral Audit* 38:39 - The Model Is Smarter Than The Eval (6.2.3.2)* 40:48 - You Should See The Other Guy* 43:12 - UK AISI Testing (6.2.4)* 43:32 - In Vendbench (6.2.5)* 46:10 - Honesty (6.3.3 to 6.3.6)* 49:00 - Chain of Thought (CoT) Monitorability (6.5)* 51:46 - What’s In The Box? (6.6)* 54:01 - That’s All For Now<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

55 MIN

MAY 28, 2026

AI #170: Lack of Executive Order

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* 00:02:06 - Table of Contents* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:13 - Do The Math* 00:12:26 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:13:23 - On Your Marks* 00:14:42 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:22 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:24:00 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:24:12 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:26:34 - Overcoming Bias* 00:28:38 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:30:14 - Unprompted Attention* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:34:08 - Get Involved* 00:35:56 - Introducing* 00:36:05 - In Other AI News* 00:37:58 - Show Me the Money* 00:40:05 - Show Me The Compute* 00:40:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:42:24 - People Just Say Things* 00:47:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:47:17 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:54 - State AI Regulation Levels Up* 00:51:50 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:52:29 - White House Attempts To Cripple American AI Industry* 00:55:25 - Our Offer Is Nothing* 01:02:11 - Chip City* 01:02:26 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:03:39 - Marc Andreessen Just Says Things* 01:11:18 - So Sayeth The Pope* 01:18:12 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:25:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:27:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:29:27 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:30:40 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness* 01:36:50 - The Lighter Side<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-170-lack-of-executive-order?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-170-lack-of-executive-order?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

100 MIN

MAY 26, 2026

RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI

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* 00:03:09 - Table of Contents* 00:03:50 - A Brief History of Magnifica Humanitas* 00:13:50 - Economic Models Very Different From Our Own* 00:15:47 - A New Jerusalem* 00:18:08 - So Sayeth The Pope (on AI)* 00:34:03 - The Case Against Human Achievement* 00:37:01 - Truth, Justice and the Vatican Way* 00:40:03 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:45:19 - What Is Not Fair In Love and War* 00:52:21 - Come Ye Christian Faithful* 00:54:55 - The Other Missing Mood* 00:57:31 - Pope Given About Five Words* 01:01:20 - The Anthropic Principle* 01:03:29 - Claude Can Read Your Code<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

66 MIN

MAY 22, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is

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* 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’* 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 06:34 - Reactions* 12:29 - Google AI Search* 13:21 - Google Daily Brief* 14:29 - Google I/O Day<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

16 MIN

MAY 21, 2026

AI #169: New Knowledge

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* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:42 - Do The Math* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:20 - Get Involved* 00:39:20 - Introducing* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:00:16 - Chip City* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Side<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

95 MIN

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