Podcast for Zvi's blog, Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
AI #173: AI Pauses
JUN 18, 2026101 MIN
AI #173: AI Pauses
JUN 18, 2026101 MIN
Description
<p>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. </p><p>* 00:00:00 - Introduction</p><p>* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents</p><p>* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility</p><p>* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility</p><p>* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades</p><p>* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks</p><p>* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench</p><p>* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter</p><p>* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please</p><p>* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon</p><p>* 00:18:46 - Goodhart’s Law Strikes Again</p><p>* 00:19:32 - They Took Our Jobs</p><p>* 00:22:12 - The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner</p><p>* 00:24:30 - Introducing</p><p>* 00:26:00 - In Other AI News</p><p>* 00:28:52 - Show Me the Money</p><p>* 00:29:17 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble</p><p>* 00:30:50 - Quiet Speculations</p><p>* 00:33:28 - People Just Say Things</p><p>* 00:36:58 - The Widened Path</p><p>* 00:39:17 - Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions</p><p>* 00:46:01 - Quickly, There’s No Time</p><p>* 00:47:04 - Policy On The AI Exponential</p><p>* 00:57:03 - Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks</p><p>* 00:58:08 - Obligations of Developers</p><p>* 01:02:53 - Societal Resilience Measures</p><p>* 01:04:12 - Economic Policy Framework</p><p>* 01:09:49 - White House Pauses AI Deployment</p><p>* 01:18:28 - The Once And Future Fable</p><p>* 01:23:27 - How To Fix This Code</p><p>* 01:25:11 - The End of Privacy</p><p>* 01:26:38 - AIs Have Preferences</p><p>* 01:29:27 - The Quest for Sane Regulations</p><p>* 01:32:13 - Chip City</p><p>* 01:32:43 - The Week in Audio</p><p>* 01:32:52 - Rhetorical Innovation</p><p>* 01:33:29 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult</p><p>* 01:35:14 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone</p><p>* 01:36:27 - The Lighter Side</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></p> <br/><br/>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>