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Zvi Mowshowitz

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Zvi MowshowitzVoicesThe Quest for Embedded Evaluators Dario Amodei’s essay We Must Pace the Frontier committed Anthropic to embedded evaluators, who would be placed inside Anthropic and given employee-level access, so they could provide outside…

September 27

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesClaude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions When it comes to making things, or doing most things in general, Fable 5.1 and especially GPT-6 Astra raised my ambition level. They should have raised yours, too.

September 26

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesOn Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang Jensen Huang accidentally called for shutting down OpenAI and intentionally called for spending vastly more on safety. This is why we say that some podcasts are self-recommending. Here we go.

September 25

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #187: Coming Into Play Opus 5.5 was released on Tuesday. I covered the system card yesterday, and will cover its capabilities soon. By all reports it is an excellent model.

September 24

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesClaude Opus 5.5: The System Card Introducing the world’s most powerful model, at least by some measures like Artificial Analysis or any standard benchmark list, which is now Claude Opus 5.5 .

September 23

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesPolitics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone. Jacob Coxon’s resignation set off a preference cascade . Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote that we must pace the frontier .

September 22

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesMonthly Roundup #46: September 2026 AI has taken over this blog. I have moved to a schedule of seven posts per week, and I still cannot keep up. We still refuse to abandon the rest of the world.

September 21

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesBetter Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra What should your AI lawyer do for you? Should you be worried that your AI lawyer , or other AI, will put the Claude constitution, the OpenAI Model Spec or some sense of law, morality, ethics or…

September 20

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAnthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems Anthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known.

September 19

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesThe Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started We are in the midst of a preference cascade about existential risk from AI. A preference cascade is, alas, the best method we have to change the debate. The avalanche has started .

September 18

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #186: The World Takes Notice In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation , and the resulting preference cascade , things have escalated quickly. The mainstream media picked it up.

September 17

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesTrump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk This is our reality. I suppose we have to talk about it. Everyone in a position to know is freaking out about AI potentially killing everyone this decade and wants to pace the frontier, and people…

September 16

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesThe Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude A lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things. Mostly they fail. We think. Anthropic has disrupted a bunch of them, and offers an extensive report .

September 15

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesWe Must Pace The Frontier Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier , naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July .

September 14

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesBrand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize The first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI . A deeply unfortunate situation has arisen involving what should have been some combination of a positive story about new progress in…

September 13

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesGPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things Astra is an excellent model. The jump from Sol to Astra is larger than the jump from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1. This is a big deal.

September 12

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesJacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to…

September 11

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesThe Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.

September 11

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesAI #185: Preference Cascade The world of AI is inside my OODA loop. Even if I can process all the incoming information and sculpt it into posts, and even using Saturday and Sunday as flex slots, I don’t have enough days of the…

September 10

Zvi MowshowitzVoicesGPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next OpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world. Not the most intelligent and aligned OpenAI model, but the most period. That is bold talk.

September 9