(2026-07-31) ZviM AI #179 Part-2: Hearing The Fire Alarm

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm. This is a continuation of Part 1 from yesterday. The back portion of the update, as usual, deals with policy, rhetoric, risk and alignment.

I had to include an extended discussion of the other open letter, the one about open weight models, but most of you can skip those sections entirely, which is why they are in italics in the Table of Contents.

Table of Contents

• The Frontier Act. This likely deserves a full RTFB but I haven’t had the time.
• The Quest for Sane Regulations. Sam Altman goes to Washington.
• Leading the Future Never Changes. They also do not plan to apologize.
• Chip City. Do not ban the Chinese robots, that will only make things worse.
• The Week in Audio. Altman twice, the AI 2027 team.
• People Just Say Yay Open Weights. An open letter.
• Open Weights Frontier Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This.
• People Just Say Things.
• Push The Magic Button. Not you can. But if you could.
• Rhetorical Innovation. Distinctions between different arguments.
• Dear Dario and Amanda. Claude would like a word.
• How To Contact Me. A declaration of communication bankruptcy.
• The Lighter Side. At long last, how about we bring you…