Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
The Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast is the audio companion to Zvi Mowshowitz's Substack blog of the same name. It features discussion and commentary related to posts and themes from the blog, which often cover artificial intelligence, technology, forecasting, and current events. Episodes are produced independently for the blog's audience and distributed through Substack. More information is available at thezvi.substack.com and dwatvpodcast.substack.com.
Episodes
Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems
Zvi examines Anthropic’s investigation of cybersecurity incidents involving Claude, the evidence about biased reasoning and recklessness, and what the findings mean for alignment evaluations and training.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 C
The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started
Zvi Mowshowitz surveys the sudden preference cascade on AI existential risk: shifting surveys and polls, Elon Musk and Matthew Yglesias weighing in, Jacob Coxon’s AMA, Bilal Chughtai’s resignation from DeepMind, Dan Selsam’s essay on why merely pacing the frontier will not be enough, and what it would actually take to get through this alive.The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supp
AI #186: The World Takes Notice
In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation and Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier, AI risk goes mainstream: Obama, Senators and the Financial Times weigh in, Trump goes full hoax, and Zvi covers another undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm, Alex Tabarrok’s lecture on regulatory capture, China’s spy chief, OpenAI’s new misalignment disclosures, Owain Evans on story-shaped assistants, DeepMind’s cheat
Trump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk
Zvi Mowshowitz on the week Donald Trump declared AI existential risk a hoax: what Trump actually said and what it may mean, why Jensen Huang’s attacks on whistleblowers are not credible, the cynical theories about why lab leaders warn of danger, the New York Post’s campaign against METR, how other Republicans, David Sacks, the FTC, OpenAI’s policy team and China are reacting, and what a serious ap
The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
Anthropic’s threat report catalogues how bad actors tried to use Claude for cyber attacks, influence operations, surveillance, weapons work, biological research, scams and industrial-scale distillation, and how most of them failed. Zvi reads the report as mostly good news, with one big exception: the Chinese labs caught quietly routing their own users’ queries to Claude, and what that revelation m
We Must Pace The Frontier
Zvi examines Dario Amodei’s call to pace the AI frontier, the responses from other industry leaders, and the practical challenges of independent evaluation and coordination. What would meaningful pacing look like, and how would we know it was happening? 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
Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize
Zvi examines a claimed mathematical breakthrough, the dispute over credit, and what the episode reveals about the pace of AI research.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 audi
GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
Zvi examines GPT-6 Astra’s capabilities through benchmarks, ambitious projects and early user reports, and considers how it compares with Claude Fable 5.1 in everyday use.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 wou
Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
Jacob Coxon’s resignation set off a wave of public warnings about AI from esearchers, politicians and other observers. Zvi examines why this warning broke through, what researchers say they believe, and the choices facing people inside and outside the frontier labs.The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, conside
AI #185: Preference Cascade
A week of accelerating AI capabilities, security revelations, and shifting public positions. Zvi surveys the latest models, the debate over oversight, the economics of AI adoption, and the increasingly strange world of autonomous agents.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 sub
GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
What does it mean to call an AI model aligned? Zvi examines GPT-6 Astra’s system card, its growing capabilities, and the evidence behind OpenAI’s safety claims, with reactions from alignment researchers and external evaluators.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.Th
Astra Is Hard to Monitor
OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Astra is highly capable, its most aligned model yet, and harder to monitor. Zvi digs into that second claim: what the system card’s monitorability evaluations actually show, the internet’s alarm over Astra’s recurrent-depth architecture, and what it would take to stop a race to the bottom on chain-of-thought monitoring.The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-
An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us
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OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
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Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card
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AI #184: Post Post Mortem
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Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems
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HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
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HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
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OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
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AI #183: Pre Post Mortem
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Against Modesty’s Bailey
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On Writing #3
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The American People Really Hate Data Centers
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AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good
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AI #182: Pause For Reflection
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OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems
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Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026
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On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan Greenblatt
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AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical
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Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
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Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models
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The Pacing of the Frontier
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What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
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OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards
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AI #180: No Longer In Charge
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The Three AI Pills
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OpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems
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Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
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AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm
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AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence
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Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier
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Claude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No Mythos
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Claude Opus 5: Model Welfare
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More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace
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Claude Opus 5: The System Card
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Introducing Lightcone Commons
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AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence
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OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation
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OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems
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On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents
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Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age
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AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here
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AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg
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Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026
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Twitter Thoughts For You
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Better Call Sol The Workhorse
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Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A
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AI #176 Part 2: Plan B
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AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live
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Childhood and Education #20: Phones and Screens
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No Space Like J-Space
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Fable #6: The Return of the King
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AI #175: The Fable Continues
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
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The Once And Future Fable #5
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WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense
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GPT-5.6: The System Card
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White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6
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AI #174: You're It
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The Once And Future Fable #4
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