“AI #191: The Hackening Begins” by Zvi

It was the probably worst day in cybersecurity history. So far. Not only is there a critical flaw in PHP that due to a leak was announced a day before the fix would be available, sending most of the internet scrambling for solutions and likely dooming a lot of long tail websites permanently, there were several other unrelated incidents. The floodgates seem to have been opened. I have a market on whether there will be an even worse day before the end of the year. Another key leak this week was the draft bill Anthropic had been shopping around Congress, similar to but weaker than the FRONTIER Act. Anthropic's initial attempts to explain itself only made the situation seem worse, as they seemed to not understand the problem with what they had done. Dario's later response was better, but the situation remains troubling. There are enough different Anthropic developments, that I plan to have a post soon covering them all. It is a mix of news running from excellent to terrible. Will interpretability save us? There is a new claim that neural networks are cleaner than we thought, meaning that individual neurons mostly have a single interpretable [...] --- Outline: (02:05) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (03:23) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (05:03) Huh, Upgrades (08:50) Wonder No More (11:15) On Your Marks (14:30) Choose Your Fighter (14:51) Get My Agent On The Line (16:35) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon (21:01) Fun With Media Generation (21:17) Spy Versus Spy (24:58) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (25:56) They Took Our Jobs (31:07) Get Involved (32:18) Introducing (32:30) In Other AI News (34:26) Show Me the Money (38:42) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble (39:32) Quiet Speculations (41:47) Quickly, There's No Time (42:29) The Quest for Sane Regulations (42:55) DeepMind Made Him Sign an NDA (46:50) OpenAI Sells Out On Chips (49:08) Chip City (53:43) The Week in Audio (01:00:35) People Just Say Things (01:03:50) Rhetorical Innovation (01:06:17) Maybe You Should Quit (01:08:54) The American People Really Hate AI (01:09:43) New Math (01:11:27) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult (01:15:21) Cooperative Alignment (01:19:28) Marc Andreessen Hulk Smash (01:23:56) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:24:44) The Lighter Side --- First published: October 22nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZoMJdvq9meE4shyzJ/ai-191-the-hackening-begins --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.