Podcast Episodes

“Donating 80% While It Still Counts” by jefftk

Julia and I had been giving half since 2014, but in 2025 we drew on our savings to donate 81%. It looks to us like we're in a critical window for k…

1 week, 4 days ago

“Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area” by jsteinhardt

As AI systems become more capable, the cognitive security of humans will be increasingly at risk. By cognitive security, I mean the ability of human…

1 week, 5 days ago

“Linkpost: New Vatican Encyclical on AI Governance” by Jackson Wagner

Pope Leo XIV has released a new, 42k-word encyclical laying out the Vatican's position on many AI safety topics. You can read the full thing here, o…

1 week, 5 days ago

“A (Slightly) Mechanistic Theory for Exponentially Increasing AI Time Horizons?” by Oliver Sourbut

AI ‘time horizons’ are mostly not about time (I think it's mostly ‘data’, but you’ll see where I’m unsure).

One chart from 2025 has become perhaps t…

1 week, 5 days ago

“Taxing Small Cars To Improve MPG” by jefftk

Cars and trucks are getting bigger, and I had a vague sense that fuel economy regulations were partly to blame. Looking into it, it's hard to say h…

1 week, 5 days ago

“We made a map of the doom debate” by Sean Herrington, Paul Hindoian, mikaelacankosyan, David Bravo, keivnc, Josh Tuffy, Christopher Davis, Khai Tran, Maryam Hampaei

This was produced as a part of the AI Safety Camp 2026 "Assumptions of the Doom Debate" project, led by Sean Herrington, who was also the lead autho…

1 week, 6 days ago

“Your Left Brain Doesn’t Trade With Your Right” by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

[see also Four Ways Learning Economics makes you people dumber future AI]

This is a tweet by Seb Krier that caught my eye. The exact person and exac…

1 week, 6 days ago

“Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is” by Zvi

Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration. Gemini 3.5 Flash is likely the best model out there at its particular speed point, …

1 week, 6 days ago

“Probabilities are not the right concept” by David Matolcsi

Introduction

This sequence is an attempt to sketch a unified framework for several interconnected questions: Where do Bayesian priors come from? Wha…

2 weeks ago

“Basic principles for dressing better.” by spookycat

I've been a toe-in rat and existed on the outskirts of the social scene for approaching a decade now, and I can confidently say (with love) that rat…

2 weeks ago