AI #154: Claw Your Way To The Top

Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast • February 05, 2026 • Solo Episode

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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 * 00:01:06 - Table of Contents * 00:04:21 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:31 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:07:08 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:09:18 - They Got Served, They Served Back, Now It’s On * 00:18:13 - On Your Marks * 00:22:30 - Get My Agent On The Line * 00:23:42 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:27:06 - Copyright Confrontation * 00:27:39 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:28:16 - Unprompted Attention * 00:28:28 - Get Involved * 00:32:26 - Introducing * 00:32:53 - State of AI Report 2026 * 00:40:42 - In Other AI News * 00:45:13 - Autonomous Killer Robots * 00:46:43 - Show Me the Money * 00:49:14 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble * 00:52:37 - Quiet Speculations * 00:53:37 - Seb Krier Says Seb Krier Things * 01:04:13 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:04:30 - Chip City * 01:08:51 - The Week in Audio * 01:09:15 - The Adolescence of Technology * 01:10:05 - I Won’t Stand To Be Disparaged * 01:14:44 - Constitutional Conversation * 01:16:26 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:20:34 - Don’t Panic * 01:23:05 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:24:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:25:37 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-154-claw-your-way-to-the-top?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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