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OpenAI Offers A New Policy Blueprint

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2026/06/05

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* 04:28 - What Do We Want?* 07:46 - A National Framework* 11:55 - Building State Capacity And CAISI* 13:09 - Whole-Of-Government Resilience* 13:57 - Reasonableness Risinghttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-offers-a-new-policy-blueprint?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full

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95:24

AI #171: False Flag

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2026/06/04

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* 00:01:07 - Table of Contents* 00:04:45 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:10:04 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:11:21 - On Your Marks* 00:11:41 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:00 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:12:25 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:14:12 -

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25:11

Trump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To...

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2026/06/03

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* 00:40 - The Previously Dead Executive Order* 05:14 - The Return Of The Executive Order* 05:51 - What Does The Executive Order Do* 07:05 - Thirty Days Is a Lot Less Than Ninety Days* 07:25 - Yes Your Frontier Lab Will Be Participating* 08:06 - The Rules Will Be Classified* 08:29 - Yes Prior Restraint With

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69:49

Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions

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2026/06/02

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* 00:01:37 - The Official Pitch* 00:02:17 - But Wait There’s More* 00:06:31 - It’s A Good Model, Sir* 00:07:58 - Official Benchmarks (Including System Card Section 8)* 00:17:46 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:24:30 - Your Regularly Scheduled Jailbreak* 00:25:30 - Every.To Is Really Into Opus four point

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58:21

Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

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2026/06/01

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* 05:00 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 08:48 - Actual Progress?* 10:15 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 20:18 - Automated Interviews* 21:08 - Emotion Activations (7.2.3)* 22:29 - Task Preferences (7.4.1)* 25:58 - A Trade Offer Has Arrived (7.4.2)* 28:36 - But Who’s Asking?* 29:49 - Type-Safe

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55:02

Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card

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2026/05/29

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

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100:21

AI #170: Lack of Executive Order

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2026/05/28

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 -

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66:10

RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI

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2026/05/26

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

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16:59

Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is

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2026/05/22

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

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95:04

AI #169: New Knowledge

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2026/05/21

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 -

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22:04

Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2

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2026/05/20

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* 00:35 - People Don’t Let Kids Do Things* 03:26 - Half The People Are Worse Than Average* 04:29 - Let Your Children Play* 05:53 - Don’t Fear The CPS* 10:14 - Daycare* 13:13 - Daycare Costs* 15:39 - Lying* 17:53 - Iterated Games* 18:31 - Different Kids Are Different* 19:22 -

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48:26

Dating Roundup #12: Sex and Violence

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2026/05/18

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* 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing* 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible* 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work* 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work* 23:15 - You’re Single And

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47:20

Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026

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2026/05/15

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* 00:15 - Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta* 04:18 - Bad News* 08:42 - Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future* 08:50 - Good Advice* 11:49 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False* 13:48 - There Are Four Skills* 16:31 - While I Cannot Condone This* 21:07 - Good News, Everyone* 21:48 - For Your Entertainment*

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90:51

AI #168: Not Leading the Future

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2026/05/14

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* 00:00:29 - Table of Contents* 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:23 - Levels of Friction* 00:08:35 - On Your Marks* 00:10:04 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:13:14 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon*

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33:39

Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance

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2026/05/13

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* 01:28 - On Your Marks* 06:25 - How Good Is Mythos?* 13:15 - Cyber Lack of Security* 16:57 - Greetings From The Department of War* 18:34 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 23:29 - Commerce Versus Intelligence* 30:28 - The Quest for Sane

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27:14

Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math

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2026/05/12

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* 00:36 - Education Research Is Worse Than You Know* 04:33 - The War on Math* 06:52 - University of California San Diego* 14:35 - Beyond UCSD* 16:22 - New York Can’t Do Math* 17:33 - The Academic Standards Seem Low* 20:38 - New Math* 22:48 - Math Anxiety Is Often Due To Knowledge Gaps* 25:18 - Calculus By

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30:46

Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading

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2026/05/11

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* 01:01 - Table of Contents* 01:39 - Mississippi Can Read Now* 02:57 - What Mississippi and Louisiana Did* 09:54 - Spies In Every Classroom* 11:37 - Mississippi Results Are Not Due To Retention* 17:03 - Is Retention Helpful In General?* 21:25 - At Eighth Grade A Lot Of This Improvement Remains* 22:22 - England

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22:38

Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8

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2026/05/08

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* 00:35 - Table of Contents* 01:00 - Whoops, Sorry* 02:09 - Huh, Upgrades* 04:42 - Codex of Ultimate Computer Use* 08:36 - Rookie Numbers* 09:33 - I See What You Did There* 11:40 - Just a Ride* 11:47 - They Didn’t Want Our Jobs* 17:45 - Skilling Up* 21:16 - The Lighter

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94:37

AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins

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2026/05/07

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* 00:01:46 - Table of Contents* 00:05:53 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:55 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:33 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:57 - Grok 4.3 Exists But X AI Kind Of Doesn’t* 00:11:16 - Show Me The Compute* 00:17:54 - On Your Marks* 00:18:34 - Copyright

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18:24

What is Anthropic?

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2026/05/06

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* 00:30 - What Is Anthropic?* 11:50 - What Is This Supposed Tool AI?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/what-is-anthropic?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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