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10 current / recent listening picks
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AI Safety Goes Mainstream — CSIS AI Policy Podcast Sep. 17, 2026
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Decoding State-Level Regulation with Jason Elliott — CSIS Sep. 10, 2026
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METR Investigates the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident — CSIS Sep. 3, 2026
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Noam Brown — Agent swarms, alignment & recursive self-improvement — Dwarkesh Podcast Sep. 17, 2026
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement — Dwarkesh Podcast Sep. 11, 2026
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Ajeya Cotra — Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face — Dwarkesh Podcast Sep. 1, 2026
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations — Dwarkesh Podcast Aug. 31, 2026
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Dylan Patel — AI compute, economics & concentration — Dwarkesh Podcast Aug. 25, 2026
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OpenAI Pauses RL Training and Anthropic Adds Watermarks — CSIS Aug. 20, 2026
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Planning for the AI-Powered Economy — CSIS Aug. 13, 2026
10 current / recent watch options
Many of these episode pages include an embedded YouTube player or a “Watch on YouTube” option.
- AI Safety Goes Mainstream — video-enabled CSIS episode
- Decoding State-Level Regulation — video-enabled CSIS episode
- METR / OpenAI–Hugging Face investigation — video-enabled CSIS episode
- RL training pause + watermarking — video-enabled CSIS episode
- Three More AI Hacking Incidents — video-enabled CSIS episode
- Noam Brown — Agent swarms, alignment & recursive self-improvement
- AI researchers debate recursive self-improvement
- Ajeya Cotra — OpenAI agent swarm / Hugging Face
- Stanford HAI — 2026 AI Index briefing
- MIT FutureTech — AI Risk Repository explainer
Research & standards
Thinkers & institutions to explore
Starting points include NIST, Stanford HAI, MIT’s AI Risk Initiative, OECD.AI, the Responsible AI Collaborative, CSIS Wadhwani AI Center, and researchers/builders with differing perspectives such as Fei-Fei Li, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Melanie Mitchell, and others. Inclusion is not a ranking or endorsement.
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