This was Anthropic Vision week where at DWATV, which caused things to fall a bit behind on other fronts even within AI. Several topics are getting pushed forward, as the Christmas lull appears to be over.
Upcoming schedule: Friday will cover Dario's essay The Adolescence of Technology. Monday will cover Kimi K2.5, which is potentially a big deal. Tuesday is scheduled to be Claude Code #4. I’ve also pushed discussions of the question of the automation of AI R&D, or When AI Builds AI, to a future post, when there is a slot for that.
So get your reactions to all of those in by then, including in the comments to today's post, and I’ll consider them for incorporation.
Table of Contents
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Outline:
(00:55) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(02:30) Overcoming Bias
(03:01) Huh, Upgrades
(04:53) On Your Marks
(05:15) Choose Your Fighter
(09:53) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(12:57) Cybersecurity On Alert
(15:28) Fun With Media Generation
(16:22) You Drive Me Crazy
(21:51) They Took Our Jobs
(22:19) Get Involved
(22:48) Introducing
(24:11) In Other AI News
(28:21) Show Me the Money
(30:58) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
(38:45) Quiet Speculations
(42:39) Don't Be All Thumbs
(43:52) The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem
(49:34) Quickly, There's No Time
(53:39) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(57:55) Those Really Were Interesting Times
(01:02:18) Chip City
(01:04:35) The Week in Audio
(01:07:24) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:14:55) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:15:46) The Power Of Disempowerment
(01:19:14) The Lighter Side
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First published:
January 29th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSQagZoSLdQKnS5zF/ai-153-living-documents
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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