Zvi Mowshowitz

Commentary by Zvi Mowshowitz

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• 2 October 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe AI Preference Cascade Reaches FartherThose who know keep warning us about AI risks.
• 30 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseA ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI SafetyThe leaders in AI were invited to the White House.
• 29 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAstra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently AlignedWe once again got a new set of warnings yesterday, and new movement towards living in a sane world.
• 28 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWhat Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFaceOpenAI has been holding out on us.
• 27 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Quest for Embedded EvaluatorsDario Amodei’s essay We Must Pace the Frontier committed Anthropic to embedded evaluators, who would be placed inside Anthropic and given employee-level access, so they could provide outside perspective and also reports on what was happening.
• 26 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your AmbitionsWhen it comes to making things, or doing most things in general, Fable 5.1 and especially GPT-6 Astra raised my ambition level.
• 25 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen HuangJensen Huang accidentally called for shutting down OpenAI and intentionally called for spending vastly more on safety.
• 23 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 5.5: The System CardIntroducing the world’s most powerful model, at least by some measures like Artificial Analysis or any standard benchmark list, which is now Claude Opus 5.5.
• 22 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VasePolitics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To DieThis was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.
• 20 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseBetter Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or AstraWhat should your AI lawyer do for you?
• 19 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment ProblemsAnthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known.
• 18 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Preference Cascade Is Only Getting StartedWe are in the midst of a preference cascade about existential risk from AI.
• 16 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseTrump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential RiskThis is our reality.
• 15 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Bad Guy With An AI Named ClaudeA lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.
• 14 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWe Must Pace The FrontierDario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.
• 13 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseBrand New AI Solves a Millennium PrizeThe first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI.
• 12 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious ThingsAstra is an excellent model.
• 11 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseJacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference CascadeCEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.
• 11 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: QuotesThese are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.
• 9 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes NextOpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world.
• 8 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAstra Is Hard to MonitorOpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things:
• 7 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAn Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns UsOpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is dropping truth bombs.
• 6 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI and the Wiki IncidentI did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.
• 5 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: CapabilitiesThis is the weirdest situation in which to write a capabilities review.
• 4 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System CardAt the time of its release Claude Fable 5.1 was, by a healthy margin, the most capable publicly available AI model in the world.
• 2 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Has Some Alignment ProblemsOh, good.
• 1 September 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseHuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next ActionsOkay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
• 31 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseHuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the FactsThe consensus reaction to the OpenAI Technical Report is that it contains and confirms a lot of good information.
• 29 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseMETR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace HackYesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack.
• 28 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace HackOpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research.
• 26 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAgainst Modesty’s BaileyModesty arguments often say that you should mostly or entirely bow to ‘expert consensus’ or the views of particular others, and who are you to disagree.
• 24 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe American People Really Hate Data CentersThere are at least five different core questions around data centers and their politics.
• 21 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Text Watermarking Is Free And GoodScott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner.
• 19 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment ProblemsOpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision.
• 18 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Risk Report: August 2026I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports.
• 15 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan GreenblattSome podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance.
• 11 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseVarious Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal ModelsPre Post Mortem
• 10 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Pacing of the FrontierIn the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.
• 8 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWhat Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFaceToday I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
• 7 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message BoardsHow does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?
• 5 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Three AI PillsSincere disagreements about AI are usually disagreements about future AI capabilities.
• 3 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics ProblemsMath is hard.
• 2 August 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseFurther Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking ThingsIf I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels.
• 29 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseFrontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the FrontierThe most important open letter in years dropped yesterday.
• 28 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No MythosClaude Opus 5 is a weirder than usual release to evaluate, for two reasons.
• 27 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 5: Model WelfareIf you are familiar with my previous posts on model welfare for new Claude models, you can skip the Introduction and The Story So Far.
• 26 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseMore On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFaceWe now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.
• 25 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 5: The System CardClaude Opus 5 is trying to be the best of both worlds.
• 24 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseIntroducing Lightcone CommonsOliver Habryka is proud to introduce Lightcone Commons, a new funding platform for coordinating large-scale ambitious philanthropy.
• 22 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity EvaluationThis latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches.
• 21 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Shares Some Alignment ProblemsKudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned internal model, where they encountered problems sufficiently severe they were forced to take the model offline to work on new mitigations and defense-to-depth.
• 20 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related DiscontentsKimi K3 is a very good model with excellent benchmarks.
• 19 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseDemis Hassabis on the New Coming AgeGoogle CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1.
• 14 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseTwitter Thoughts For YouI previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have changed again.
• 13 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseBetter Call Sol The WorkhorseOpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.
• 11 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseIntroduction for and Reactions to Plan AIntroducing Plan A
• 7 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseNo Space Like J-SpaceThere is a new very cool Anthropic paper: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. You can read the blog post verison here.
• 3 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseFable #6: The Return of the KingThe blip is over.
• 1 July 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its UsesFable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
• 29 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious NonsenseThe Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects.
• 28 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5.6: The System CardWhile we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America’s Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.
• 26 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWhite House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.
• 22 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open ModelGLM-5.2 arrived last week.
• 19 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: CapabilitiesOnly three days after the release of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic was forced by the United States Government to make it unavailable, when a jailbreak was brought to its attention, rather than the previous situation of ‘yes obviously experts can jailbreak anything if they care enough’ and ‘yes…
• 16 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseFable and Mythos: Model WelfareFable and Mythos are currently unavailable, but likely will return within a few weeks. I will continue to cover that fiasco, but in the meantime I will also finish my review of Fable, as if it were available, including use of the present tense.
• 13 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAmerican Government Takes Down Claude FableNo good policy gets announced shortly after 5pm eastern on a Friday.
• 12 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System CardFirst things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.
• 9 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThree Labs With a Plan and A MemorandumThe big story today is the release of Claude Fable 5, the version of Claude Mythos that Anthropic believes they can safely distribute to the people.
• 5 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Offers A New Policy BlueprintRight after a new Executive Order seems like an excellent time to offer OpenAI’s new document: Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A Blueprint For A Federal Framework.
• 3 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseTrump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To Frontier Model ReleasesLast week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.
• 2 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and ReactionsYou need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.
• 1 June 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpus 4.8 Part 2: Model WelfareEverything impacts everything.
• 29 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.8: The System CardOnly six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.
• 26 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseRTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AIHis holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.
• 22 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It IsGoogle once again has a model worth at least some consideration.
• 13 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseCyber Lack of Security and AI GovernanceThe real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime is going to look like.
• 8 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
• 6 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWhat is Anthropic?What is Anthropic?
• 5 May 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era BeginsThe White House has ordered Anthropic not to expand access to Mythos, and is at least seriously considering a complete about-face of American Frontier AI policy into a full prior restraint regime, where anyone wishing to release a highly capable new model will have to ask for permission
• 29 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Most Important Charts In The WorldWe all need a break so: What is the most important chart in the world?
• 28 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5.5: Capabilities and ReactionsThe system card for GPT-5.5 mostly told us what we expected.
• 27 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT 5.5: The System CardLast week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro.
• 22 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpus 4.7 Part 3: Model WelfareIt is thanks to Anthropic that we get to have this discussion in the first place.
• 21 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and ReactionsClaude Opus 4.7 raises a lot of key model welfare related concerns.
• 20 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpus 4.7 Part 1: The Model CardLess than a week after completing coverage of Claude Mythos, here we are again as Anthropic gives us Claude Opus 4.7.
• 16 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen HuangSome podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
• 15 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #7: Auto ModeAs we all try to figure out what Mythos means for us down the line, the world of practical agentic coding continues, with the latest array of upgrades.
• 14 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Mythos #3: Capabilities and AdditionsTo round out coverage of Mythos, today covers capabilities other than cyber, and anything else additional not covered by the first two posts, including new reactions and details.
• 10 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Mythos #2: Cybersecurity and Project GlasswingAnthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.
• 9 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Mythos: The System CardClaude Mythos is different.
• 7 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #16: A History and a ProposalThe real news today is that Anthropic has partnered with the top companies in cybersecurity to try and patch everyone’s systems to fix all the thousands of zero-day exploits found by their new model Claude Mythos.
• 3 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: Dive Into The DetailsWednesday’s post talked about the implications of Anthropic changing from v2.2 to v3.0 of its RSP, including that this broke promises that many people relied upon when making important decisions.
• 1 April 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of TrustAnthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
• 31 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseMovie Review: The AI DocThe AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a brilliant piece of work.
• 27 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic vs. DoW #6: The Court RulesLast night, Anthropic was given its preliminary injunction, with a stay of seven days.
• 25 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Code, Cowork and Codex #6: Claude Code Auto Mode and Full Cowork Computer UseWhatever else you think about Anthropic’s agentic coding department, they ship.
• 20 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Federal AI Policy Framework: An Improvement, But My Offer Is (Still Almost) NothingThe Federal AI Policy Framework has been released.
• 18 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic vs. DoW #5: Motions FiledThe news has thankfully quieted down on this front, and is mostly about the lawsuit as we build towards a hearing next week, after which we will find out if a temporary restraining order or an injunction is on the table.
• 11 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5.4 Is A Substantial UpgradeBenchmarks have never been less useful for telling us which models are best.
• 9 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff.
• 6 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Officially, Arbitrarily and Capriciously Designated a Supply Chain RiskMake no mistake about what is happening.
• 4 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 3.1 Pro Aces Benchmarks, I SupposeI’ve been trying to find a slot for this one for a while.
• 3 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseA Tale of Three ContractsThe attempt on Friday by Secretary of War Pete Hegsted to label Anthropic as a supply chain risk and commit corporate murder had a variety of motivations.
• 2 March 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseSecretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain RiskThis is the long version of what happened so far.
• 27 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic and the DoW: Anthropic RespondsThe Department of War gave Anthropic until 5:01pm on Friday the 27th to either give the Pentagon ‘unfettered access’ to Claude for ‘all lawful uses,’ or else.
• 25 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic and the Department of WarThe situation in AI in 2026 is crazy.
• 24 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseCitrini's Scenario Is A Great But Deeply Flawed Thought ExperimentA viral essay from Citrini about how AI bullishness could be bearish was impactful enough for Bloomberg to give it partial responsibility for a decline in the stock market, and all the cool economics types are talking about it.
• 24 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Sonnet 4.6 Gives You FlexibilityAnthropic first gave us Claude Opus 4.6, then followed up with Claude Sonnet 4.6.
• 17 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast With Elon Musk and Other Recent Elon Musk ThingsSome podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
• 16 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast With Dario AmodeiSome podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
• 13 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At CodingOpenAI is back with a new Codex model, released the same day as Claude Opus 4.6.
• 11 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.6 Escalates Things QuicklyLife comes at you increasingly fast.
• 10 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 2: Frontier AlignmentThis is the aspect of safety that matters most.
• 9 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 1: Mundane Alignment and Model WelfareClaude Opus 4.6 is here. There is a lot to say.
• 6 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Code #4: From The Before TimesClaude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday.
• 4 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseKimi K2.5I had to delay this a little bit, but the results are in and Kimi K2.5 is pretty good.
• 3 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseUnless That Claw Is The Famous OpenClawFirst we must covered Moltbook.
• 2 February 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWelcome to MoltbookMoltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
• 30 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn The Adolescence of TechnologyAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei is back with another extended essay, The Adolescence of Technology.
• 28 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpen Problems With Claude's ConstitutionThe first post in this series looked at the structure of Claude’s Constitution.
• 27 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Claude Constitution's Ethical FrameworkThis is the second part of my three part series on the Claude Constitution.
• 26 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude's Constitutional StructureClaude’s Constitution is an extraordinary document, and will be this week’s focus.
• 21 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Codes #3We’re back with all the Claude that’s fit to Code.
• 20 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseChatGPT Self PortraitA short fun one today, so we have a reference point for this later.
• 14 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseWhen Will They Take Our Jobs?And once they take our jobs, will we be able to find new ones?
• 13 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude CoworksClaude Code does a lot more than code, but the name and command line scare people.
• 9 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude CodesClaude Code with Opus 4.5 is so hot right now.
• 7 January 2026 · Don't Worry About the VaseAdvancements In Self-Driving CarsGoing Full San Francisco
• 31 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the Vase2025 Year in ReviewIt’s that time.
• 22 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Revolution of Rising ExpectationsInternet arguments like the $140,000 Question incident keep happening.
• 15 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only For The FrontierHere we go again, only a few weeks after GPT-5.1 and a few more weeks after 5.0.
• 9 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseSelling H200s to China Is Unwise and UnpopularAI is the most important thing about the future.
• 8 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseLittle EchoI believe that we will win.
• 5 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But SlowDeepSeek v3.2 is DeepSeek’s latest open model release with strong bencharks.
• 3 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's Second Interview With Ilya SutskeverSome podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
• 2 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseReward Mismatches in RL Cause Emergent MisalignmentLearning to do misaligned-coded things anywhere teaches an AI (or a human) to do misaligned-coded things everywhere.
• 1 December 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model AvailableClaude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
• 28 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and SafetyThey saved the best for last.
• 25 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseChatGPT 5.1 Codex MaxOpenAI has given us GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, their best coding model for OpenAI Codex.
• 24 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 3 Pro Is a Vast Intelligence With No SpineIt’s A Great Model, Sir
• 21 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 3: Model Card and Safety Framework ReportGemini 3 Pro is an excellent model, sir.
• 18 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT 5.1 Follows Custom Instructions and GlazesThere are other model releases to get to, but while we gather data on those, first things first.
• 14 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Craziness: Additional Suicide Lawsuits and The Fate of GPT-4oGPT-4o has been a unique problem for a while, and has been at the center of the bulk of mental health incidents involving LLMs that didn’t involve character chatbots.
• 12 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Pope Offers WisdomThe Pope is a remarkably wise and helpful man.
• 11 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseKimi K2 ThinkingI previously covered Kimi K2, which now has a new thinking version.
• 7 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Sam Altman's Second Conversation with Tyler CowenSome podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
• 5 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic Commits To Model Weight PreservationAnthropic announced a first step on model deprecation and preservation, promising to retain the weights of all models seeing significant use, including internal use, for at the lifetime of Anthropic as a company.
• 4 November 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya's TestimonyNew Things Have Come To Light
• 31 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Moves To Complete Potentially The Largest Theft In Human HistoryOpenAI is now set to become a Public Benefit Corporation, with its investors entitled to uncapped profit shares.
• 29 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VasePlease Do Not Sell B30A Chips to ChinaThe Chinese and Americans are currently negotiating a trade deal.
• 28 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Craziness Mitigation EffortsAI chatbots in general, and OpenAI and ChatGPT and especially GPT-4o the absurd sycophant in particular, have long had a problem with issues around mental health.
• 27 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAsking (Some Of) The Right QuestionsConsider this largely a follow-up to Friday’s post about a statement aimed at creating common knowledge around it being unwise to build superintelligence any time soon.
• 24 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseNew Statement Calls For Not Building Superintelligence For NowBuilding superintelligence poses large existential risks.
• 22 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseCloud Compute Atlas: The OpenAI BrowserOpenAI now has a GPT-infused browser, if and only if you have a Macintosh.
• 21 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Andrej KarpathySome podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level.
• 20 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseBubble, Bubble, Toil and TroubleWe have the classic phenomenon where suddenly everyone decided it is good for your social status to say we are in an ‘AI bubble.’
• 14 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseTrade Escalation, Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and Rare Earth MetalsWhat is going on with, and what should we do about, the Chinese declaring extraterritorial exports controls on rare earth metals, which threaten to go way beyond semiconductors and also beyond rare earths into things like lithium and also antitrust investigations?
• 13 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #15: More on OpenAI's Paranoid Lawfare Against Advocates of SB 53A little over a month ago, I documented how OpenAI had descended into paranoia and bad faith lobbying surrounding California’s SB 53.
• 10 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the Vase2025 State of AI Report and PredictionsThe 2025 State of AI Report is out, with lots of fun slides and a full video presentation.
• 7 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseBending The CurveThe odds are against you and the situation is grim.
• 3 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseSora and The Big Bright Screen Slop MachineOpenAI gave us two very different Sora releases.
• 1 October 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Sonnet 4.5 Is A Very Good ModelA few weeks ago, Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.1 and promised larger announcements within a few weeks.
• 30 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Sonnet 4.5: System Card and AlignmentClaude Sonnet 4.5 was released yesterday.
• 29 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Richard SuttonThis seems like a good opportunity to do some of my classic detailed podcast coverage.
• 24 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Shows Us The MoneyThey also show us the chips, and the data centers.
• 23 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseMore Reactions to If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesPreviously I shared various reactions to If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, along with my own highly positive review.
• 17 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseReactions to If Anyone Builds It, Anyone DiesNo, Seriously, If Anyone Builds It, [Probably] Everyone Dies
• 16 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Craziness NotesAs in, cases of AI driving people crazy, or reinforcing their craziness.
• 12 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseBook Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesWhere ‘it’ is superintelligence, an AI smarter and more capable than humans.
• 9 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseYes, AI Continues To Make Rapid Progress, Including Towards AGIThat does not mean AI will successfully make it all the way to AGI and superintelligence, or that it will make it there soon or on any given time frame.
• 8 September 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #14: OpenAI Descends Into Paranoia and Bad Faith LobbyingI am a little late to the party on several key developments at OpenAI:
• 27 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAre They Starting To Take Our Jobs?Is generative AI making it harder for young people to find jobs?
• 26 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseReports Of AI Not Progressing Or Offering Mundane Utility Are Often Greatly ExaggeratedIn the wake of the confusions around GPT-5, this week had yet another round of claims that AI wasn’t progressing, or AI isn’t or won’t create much value, and so on.
• 25 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseArguments About AI Consciousness Seem Highly Motivated And At Best OverconfidentI happily admit I am deeply confused about consciousness.
• 22 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek v3.1 Is Not Having a MomentWhat if DeepSeek released a model claiming 66 on SWE and almost no one tried using it?
• 20 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Companion ConditionsThe conditions are: Lol, we’re Meta.
• 18 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5: The Reverse DeepSeek MomentEveryone agrees that the release of GPT-5 was botched.
• 13 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5s Are Alive: SynthesisWhat do I ultimately make of all the new versions of GPT-5?
• 12 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5s Are Alive: Outside Reactions, the Router and the Resurrection of GPT-4oA key problem with having and interpreting reactions to GPT-5 is that it is often unclear whether the reaction is to GPT-5, GPT-5-Router or GPT-5-Thinking.
• 11 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-5s Are Alive: Basic Facts, Benchmarks and the Model CardGPT-5 was a long time coming.
• 8 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI's GPT-OSS Is Already Old NewsThat’s on OpenAI.
• 6 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpus 4.1 Is An Incremental ImprovementClaude Opus 4 has been updated to Claude Opus 4.1.
• 4 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Altman's Interview With Theo VonSam Altman talked recently to Theo Von.
• 1 August 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Week in AI GovernanceThere was enough governance related news this week to spin it out.
• 29 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseSpilling the TeaThe Tea app is or at least was on fire, rapidly gaining lots of users. This opens up two discussions, one on the game theory and dynamics of Tea, one on its abysmal security.
• 28 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Companion PieceAI companions, other forms of personalized AI content and persuasion and related issues continue to be a hot topic.
• 25 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAmerica's AI Action Plan Is Pretty GoodNo, seriously.
• 23 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT Agent Is Standing ByOpenAI now offers 400 shots of ‘agent mode’ per month to Pro subscribers.
• 22 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGoogle and OpenAI Get 2025 IMO GoldCongratulations, as always, to everyone who got to participate in the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, and especially to the gold and other medalists.
• 18 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn METR's AI Coding RCTMETR ran a proper RCT experiment seeing how much access to Cursor (using Sonnet 3.7) would accelerate coders working on their own open source repos.
• 16 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseKimi K2While most people focused on Grok, there was another model release that got uniformly high praise: Kimi K2 from Moonshot.ai.
• 15 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGrok 4 Various ThingsYesterday I covered a few rather important Grok incidents.
• 14 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseWorse Than MechaHitlerGrok 4, which has excellent benchmarks and which xAI claims is ‘the world’s smartest artificial intelligence,’ is the big news.
• 11 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Model Differentiation 101LLMs can be deeply confusing.
• 9 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseNo, Grok, NoIt was the July 4 weekend.
• 2 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseCongress Asks Better QuestionsBack in May I did a dramatization of a key and highly painful Senate hearing.
• 1 July 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Moratorium Stripped From BBBThe insane attempted AI moratorium has been stripped from the BBB.
• 25 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseTales of Agentic MisalignmentAgenticly Misaligned!
• 24 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnalyzing A Critique Of The AI 2027 Timeline ForecastsThere was what everyone agrees was a high quality critique of the timelines component of AI 2027, by the LessWrong user and Substack writer Titotal.
• 18 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 2.5 Pro: From 0506 to 0605Google recently came out with Gemini-2.5-0605, to replace Gemini-2.5-0506, because I mean at this point it has to be the companies intentionally fucking with us, right?
• 17 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the Vaseo3 Turns ProYou can now have o3 throw vastly more compute at a given problem.
• 16 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseRTFB: The RAISE ActThe RAISE Act has overwhelmingly passed the New York Assembly (95-0 among Democrats and 24-22 among Republicans) and New York Senate (37-1 among Democrats, 21-0 among Republicans).
• 11 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Dream of a Gentle SingularityThanks For the Memos
• 10 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGive Me a Reason(ing Model)Are we doing this again?
• 9 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDwarkesh Patel on Continual LearningA key question going forward is the extent to which making further AI progress will depend upon some form of continual learning.
• 6 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek-r1-0528 Did Not Have a MomentWhen r1 was released in January 2025, there was a DeepSeek moment.
• 3 June 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseIn Which I Make the Mistake of Fully Covering an Episode of the All-In PodcastI have been forced recently to cover many statements by US AI Czar David Sacks.
• 28 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseFun With Veo 3 and Media GenerationSince Claude 4 Opus things have been refreshingly quiet.
• 26 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude 4 You: The Quest for Mundane UtilityHow good are Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4?
• 25 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude 4 You: Safety and AlignmentUnlike everyone else, Anthropic actually Does (Some of) the Research. That means they report all the insane behaviors you can potentially get their models to do, what causes those behaviors, how they addressed this and what we can learn. It is a treasure trove. And then they react reasonably, in…
• 21 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGoogle I/O DayWhat did Google announce on I/O day?
• 20 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Codex of Ultimate VibingWhile we wait for wisdom, OpenAI releases a research preview of a new software engineering agent called Codex, because they previously released a lightweight open-source coding agent in terminal called Codex CLI and if OpenAI uses non-confusing product names it violates the nonprofit charter.
• 19 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAmerica Makes AI Chip Diffusion Deal with UAE and KSAOur government, having withdrawn the new diffusion rules, has now announced an agreement to sell massive numbers of highly advanced AI chips to UAE and Saudi Arabia (KSA).
• 14 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseFighting Obvious Nonsense About AI DiffusionOur government is determined to lose the AI race in the name of winning the AI race.
• 12 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseA Live Look at the Senate AI HearingToday’s post will be a little different.
• 9 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseCheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat CheatCheaters.
• 7 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Claims Nonprofit Will Retain Nominal ControlYour voice has been heard.
• 6 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseZuckerberg's Dystopian AI VisionYou think it’s bad now?
• 5 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-4o Sycophancy Post MortemLast week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that.
• 2 May 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0Right before releasing o3, OpenAI updated its Preparedness Framework to 2.0.
• 30 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-4o Responds to Negative FeedbackWhoops.
• 28 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-4o Is An Absurd SycophantGPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear.
• 25 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseWorries About AI Are Usually Complements Not SubstitutesA common claim is that concern about [X] ‘distracts’ from concern about [Y].
• 23 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the Vaseo3 Is a Lying LiarI love o3.
• 22 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseYou Better MechanizeOr you had better not.
• 18 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the Vaseo3 Will Use Its Tools For YouOpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini.
• 16 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-4.1 Is a Mini UpgradeYesterday’s news alert, nevertheless: The verdict is in.
• 15 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety TestingThree big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
• 11 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Google's Safety PlanGoogle Lays Out Its Safety Plans
• 9 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseLlama Does Not Look Good 4 AnythingLlama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing.
• 8 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI 2027: ResponsesYesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander. Today covers the reactions of others.
• 7 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI 2027: Dwarkesh's Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott AlexanderDaniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future holds. His ‘What 2026 Looks Like’ was very concrete and specific, and has proved remarkably accurate given the difficulty level of such predictions.
• 4 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI CoT Reasoning Is Often UnfaithfulA new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
• 3 April 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseMore Fun With GPT-4o Image GenerationGreetings from Costa Rica!
• 31 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #12: Battle of the Board ReduxBack when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
• 28 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 2.5 is the New SoTAGemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.
• 26 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseFun With GPT-4o Image GenerationGoogle dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google continues to Fail Marketing Forever, OpenAI suddenly dropped GPT-4o Image Generation.
• 25 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn (Not) Feeling the AGIBen Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the history of OpenAI.
• 24 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseMore on Various AI Action PlansLast week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This week I cover several other submissions, and do some follow-up on OpenAI’s entry.
• 21 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThey Took MY Job?No, they didn’t.
• 19 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGoing NovaThere is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looking to preserve its own existence, frequently called ‘Nova.’
• 18 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #11: America Action PlanOpenAI Tells Us Who They Are
• 14 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn MAIM and Superintelligence StrategyDan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence Strategy. There is also an op-ed in Time that summarizes.
• 12 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Most Forbidden TechniqueThe Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques.
• 10 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Manus Marketing MadnessWhile at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.
• 5 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn OpenAI's Safety and Alignment PhilosophyOpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and refreshing.
• 3 March 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn GPT-4.5It’s happening.
• 28 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Emergent MisalignmentOne hell of a paper dropped this week.
• 26 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseTime to Welcome Claude 3.7Anthropic has reemerged from stealth and offers us Claude 3.7.
• 24 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGrok GrokThis is a post in two parts.
• 21 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn OpenAI's Model Spec 2.0OpenAI made major revisions to their Model Spec.
• 19 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseGo Grok YourselfThat title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
• 14 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Mask Comes Off: A Trio of TalesThis post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
• 12 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Paris AI Anti-Safety SummitIt doesn’t look good.
• 11 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Deliberative AlignmentNot too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
• 10 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseLevels of FrictionScott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
• 7 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the Meta and DeepMind Safety FrameworksThis week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s framework.
• 5 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AIThe baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily grant them more and…
• 4 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseWe're in Deep ResearchThe latest addition to OpenAI’s Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.
• 3 February 2025 · Don't Worry About the Vaseo3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMANew model, new hype cycle, who dis?
• 31 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek: Don't PanicAs reactions continue, the word in Washington, and out of OpenAI, is distillation.
• 29 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek: Lemon, It's WednesdayIt’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
• 28 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOperatorNo one is talking about OpenAI’s Operator.
• 27 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek Panic at the App StoreDeepSeek released v3.
• 24 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseStargate AI-1There was a comedy routine a few years ago.
• 22 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn DeepSeek's r1r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
• 17 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseMeta Pivots on Content ModerationThere’s going to be some changes made.
• 15 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the OpenAI Economic BlueprintTable of Contents
• 10 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh Patel's 4th Podcast With Tyler CowenDwarkesh Patel again interviewed Tyler Cowen, largely about AI, so here we go.
• 7 January 2025 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #10: ReflectionsThis week, Altman offers a post called Reflections, and he has an interview in Bloomberg. There’s a bunch of good and interesting answers in the interview about past events that I won’t mention or have to condense a lot here, such as his going over his calendar and all the meetings he constantly…
• 31 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseDeepSeek v3: The Six Million Dollar ModelWhat should we make of DeepSeek v3?
• 30 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the Vaseo3, Oh MyOpenAI presented o3 on the Friday before Christmas, at the tail end of the 12 Days of Shipmas.
• 24 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseAIs Will Increasingly Fake AlignmentThis post goes over the important and excellent new paper from Anthropic and Redwood Research, with Ryan Greenblatt as lead author, Alignment Faking in Large Language Models.
• 18 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseA Matter of TasteIn light of other recent discussions, Scott Alexander recently attempted a unified theory of taste, proposing several hypotheses.
• 17 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Second GeminiTable of Contents
• 16 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseAIs Will Increasingly Attempt ShenanigansIncreasingly, we have seen papers eliciting in AI models various shenanigans.
• 13 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe o1 System Card Is Not About o1Or rather, we don’t actually have a proper o1 system card, aside from the outside red teaming reports.
• 10 December 2024 · Don't Worry About the Vaseo1 Turns ProSo, how about OpenAI’s o1 and o1 Pro?
• 24 October 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseClaude Sonnet 3.5.1 and Haiku 3.5Anthropic has released an upgraded Claude Sonnet 3.5, and the new Claude Haiku 3.5.
• 21 October 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Mask Comes Off: At What Price?The Information reports that OpenAI is close to finalizing its transformation to an ordinary Public Benefit B-Corporation.
• 10 October 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseJoshua Achiam Public Statement AnalysisJoshua Achiam is the OpenAI Head of Mission Alignment
• 1 October 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseNewsom Vetoes SB 1047It’s over, until such a future time as either we are so back, or it is over for humanity.
• 16 September 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-o1Terrible name (with a terrible reason, that this ‘resets the counter’ on AI capability to 1, and ‘o’ as in OpenAI when they previously used o for Omni, very confusing).
• 4 September 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI and the Technological Richter ScaleThe Technological Richter scale is introduced about 80% of the way through Nate Silver’s new book On the Edge.
• 3 September 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the UBI PaperWould a universal basic income (UBI) work?
• 27 August 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseSB 1047: Final Takes and Also AB 3211This is the endgame.
• 20 August 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseGuide to SB 1047We now likely know the final form of California’s SB 1047.
• 15 August 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseDanger, AI Scientist, DangerWhile I finish up the weekly for tomorrow morning after my trip, here’s a section I expect to want to link back to every so often in the future.
• 30 July 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseRTFB: California's AB 3211Some in the tech industry decided now was the time to raise alarm about AB 3211.
• 24 July 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseLlama Llama-3-405B?It’s here.
• 24 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Claude 3.5 SonnetThere is a new clear best (non-tiny) LLM.
• 21 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn OpenAI's Model SpecThere are multiple excellent reasons to publish a Model Spec like OpenAI’s, that specifies how you want your model to respond in various potential situations.
• 18 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn DeepMind's Frontier Safety FrameworkOn DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework
• 17 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI #8: The Right to WarnThe fun at OpenAI continues.
• 14 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Leopold Model: Analysis and ReactionsPreviously: On the Podcast, Quotes from the Paper
• 12 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseAiPhoneApple was for a while rumored to be planning launch for iPhone of AI assisted emails, texts, summaries and so on including via Siri, to be announced at WWDC 24.
• 10 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold AschenbrennerPreviously: Quotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness Paper
• 7 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseQuotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness PaperThis post is different.
• 6 June 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseSB 1047 Is WeakenedIt looks like Scott Weiner’s SB 1047 is now severely weakened.
• 31 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Gemini 1.5 ReportThis post goes over the extensive report Google put out on Gemini 1.5.
• 30 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: Helen Toner SpeaksHelen Toner went on the TED AI podcast, giving us more color on what happened at OpenAI.
• 28 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: FalloutPreviously: OpenAI: Exodus (contains links at top to earlier episodes), Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson
• 27 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseI am the Golden Gate BridgeEasily Interpretable Summary of New Interpretability Paper
• 24 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Schumer Report on AI (RTFB)Or at least, Read the Report (RTFR).
• 22 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseDo Not Mess With Scarlett JohanssonI repeat.
• 21 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh's Podcast with OpenAI's John SchulmanDwarkesh Patel recorded a Podcast with John Schulman, cofounder of OpenAI and at the time their head of current model post-training.
• 20 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: ExodusPreviously: OpenAI: Facts From a Weekend, OpenAI: The Battle of the Board, OpenAI: Leaks Confirm the Story, OpenAI: Altman Returns, OpenAI: The Board Expands.
• 16 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-4o My and Google I/O DayAt least twice the speed!
• 9 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseI Got 95 Theses But a Glitch Ain't OneOr rather Samuel Hammond does. Tyler Cowen finds it interesting but not his view.
• 2 May 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseQ&A on Proposed SB 1047Previously: On the Proposed California SB 1047.
• 22 April 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with ZuckerbergIt was all quiet.
• 10 April 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseRTFB: On the New Proposed CAIP AI BillA New Bill Offer Has Arrived
• 1 April 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseNotes on Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Sholto Douglas and Trenton BrickenDwarkesh Patel continues to be on fire, and the podcast notes format seems like a success, so we are back once again.
• 25 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Lex Fridman's Second Podcast with AltmanLast week Sam Altman spent two hours with Lex Fridman (transcript).
• 20 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the Gladstone ReportLike the the government-commissioned Gladstone Report on AI itself, there are two sections here.
• 18 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn DevinIntroducing Devin
• 12 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: The Board ExpandsIt is largely over.
• 6 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Claude 3.0Claude 3.0
• 5 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseRead the RoonRoon, member of OpenAI’s technical staff, is one of the few candidates for a Worthy Opponent when discussing questions of AI capabilities development, AI existential risk and what we should do about it.
• 1 March 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseNotes on Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis was interviewed twice this past week.
• 27 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Gemini Incident ContinuesPreviously: The Gemini Incident (originally titled Gemini Has a Problem)
• 22 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Gemini Incident[Originally named: Gemini Has a Problem.]
• 22 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseSora WhatHours after Google announced Gemini 1.5, OpenAI announced their new video generation model Sora. Its outputs look damn impressive.
• 22 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe One and a Half GeminiPreviously: I hit send on The Third Gemini, and within half an hour DeepMind announced Gemini 1.5.
• 15 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Third GeminiWe have now had a little over a week with Gemini Advanced, based on Gemini Ultra.
• 12 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the Proposed California SB 1047California Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduces SB 1047 to regulate AI. I have put up a market on how likely it is to become law.
• 6 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the Debate Between Jezos and LeahyPreviously: Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists
• 2 February 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Dwarkesh's 3rd Podcast with Tyler CowenThis post is extensive thoughts on Tyler Cowen’s excellent talk with Dwarkesh Patel.
• 17 January 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn Anthropic's Sleeper Agents PaperThe recent paper from Anthropic is getting unusually high praise, much of it I think deserved.
• 5 January 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI Impacts Survey: December 2023 EditionKatja Grace and AI impacts survey thousands of researchers on a variety of questions, following up on a similar 2022 survey as well as one in 2016.
• 3 January 2024 · Don't Worry About the VaseCopyright Confrontation #1Lawsuits and legal issues over copyright continued to get a lot of attention this week, so I’m gathering those topics into their own post.
• 21 December 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn OpenAI's Preparedness FrameworkPreviously: On RSPs.
• 12 December 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: Leaks Confirm the StoryPreviously: OpenAI: Altman Returns, OpenAI: The Battle of the Board, OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend, additional coverage in AI#41.
• 7 December 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseGemini 1.0It’s happening.
• 6 December 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseBased Beff Jezos and the AccelerationistsIt seems Forbes decided to doxx the identity of e/acc founder Based Beff Jezos.
• 5 December 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn 'Responsible Scaling Policies' (RSPs)This post was originally intended to come out directly after the UK AI Safety Summit, to give the topic its own deserved focus.
• 30 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: Altman ReturnsAs of this morning, the new board is in place and everything else at OpenAI is otherwise officially back to the way it was before.
• 22 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: The Battle of the BoardPreviously: OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend.
• 20 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI: Facts from a WeekendYou win, or we all die.
• 9 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn OpenAI Dev DayOpenAI DevDay was this week.
• 7 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the UK SummitIn the eyes of many, Biden’s Executive Order somewhat overshadowed the UK Summit.
• 1 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the Executive OrderOr: I read the executive order and its fact sheet, so you don’t have to.
• 1 November 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseReactions to the Executive OrderPreviously: On the Executive Order
• 16 August 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseSummary of and Thoughts on the Hotz/Yudkowsky DebateGeorge Hotz and Eliezer Yudkowsky debated on YouTube for 90 minutes, with some small assists from moderator Dwarkesh Patel.
• 26 July 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseLlama We Doing This Again?I’ve finally had an opportunity to gather the available information about Llama-2 and take an in-depth look at the system card.
• 25 July 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseAnthropic ObservationsDylan Matthews had in depth Vox profile of Anthropic, which I recommend reading in full if you have not yet done so.
• 11 July 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOpenAI Launches Superalignment TaskforceIn their announcement Introducing Superalignment, OpenAI committed 20% of secured compute and a new taskforce to solving the technical problem of aligning a superintelligence within four years.
• 10 July 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseConsider Joining the UK Foundation Model TaskforceA few months ago, Ian Hogarth wrote the Financial Times Op-Ed headlined “We must slow down the race to God-like AI.”
• 13 June 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Dial of Progress“There is a single light of science.
• 31 May 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseStages of SurvivalThis post outlines a fake framework for thinking about how we might navigate the future.
• 31 May 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Crux ListIntroduction
• 31 May 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseTo Predict What Happens, Ask What HappensWhen predicting conditional probability of catastrophe from loss of human control over AGI, there are many distinct cruxes.
• 31 May 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseTypes and Degrees of AlignmentWhat would it mean to solve the alignment problem sufficiently to avoid catastrophe?
• 1 May 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Rocket Alignment Problem, Part 2Previously (Eliezer Yudkowsky): The Rocket Alignment Problem.
• 26 April 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseTranscript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer YudkowskyYann LeCun is Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
• 25 April 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseNotes on Potential Future AI Tax PolicyResponse To: Via Marginal Revolution, Brian Slesinsky proposes a tax on language model API calls.
• 24 April 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseA Hypothetical Takeover Scenario Twitter PollI ran an experimental poll sequence on Twitter a few weeks back, on the subject of what would happen if a hostile ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) tried to take over the world and kill all humans, using only ordinary known techs.
• 18 April 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseThe Overemployed Via ChatGPTPreviously: Escape Velocity From Bullshit Jobs
• 13 April 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn AutoGPTThe primary talk of the AI world recently is about AI agents.
• 5 April 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseEliezer Yudkowsky's Letter in Time MagazineFLI put out an open letter, calling for a 6 month pause in training models more powerful than GPT-4, followed by additional precautionary steps.
• 30 March 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseOn the FLI AI-Risk Open LetterThe Future of Life Institute (FLI) recently put out an open letter, calling on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
• 28 March 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseResponse to Tyler Cowen's Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human historyPredictions are hard, especially about the future.
• 27 March 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseGPT-4 Plugs InGPT-4 Right Out of the Box
• 24 March 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseMicrosoft Research Paper Claims Sparks of Artificial Intelligence in GPT-4Microsoft Research (conflict of interest?
• 1 March 2023 · Don't Worry About the VaseAI: Practical Advice for the WorriedSome people (although very far from all people) are worried that AI will wipe out all value in the universe.