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Zvi Mowshowitz

Zvi Mowshowitz

Writer on AI and rationality; former Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame player

Every podcast episode featuring Zvi Mowshowitz that Attunex has found: 94 interviews and appearances across 26 shows between 2015 and 2026. Most often on Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast (30), Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com (22) and "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis (15). Often in conversation with Nathan Labenz, Erik Torenberg and Patrick McKenzie. Follow Zvi in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, were fired, ostensibly for mishandling sensitive company information. They say the reasons were pretextual, and OpenAI…

    2026-10-12
  2. New Math from OpenAI
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    OpenAI put 722 machine-written mathematics manuscripts on GitHub at once, including claimed solutions to 90 of the top 500 open problems in mathematics. Zvi Mowshowitz goes through what was proved,…

    2026-10-09
  3. AI #189: New Math
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    The biggest news of the week was not a new model but a big day for mathematics, as OpenAI posted solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems. Zvi also covers Claude Haiku 5.5, Jay Clayton as…

    2026-10-08
  4. The Curve Bends You
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi reports back from the third year of The Curve, a conference that brings together AI safety researchers, lab employees, accelerationists and people from Washington, this time under Chatham House…

    2026-10-07
  5. Childhood and Education #21: Grades and Standards
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi returns to education with a tour of grades and standards: why standardized tests help disadvantaged students and holistic admissions turn childhood into kayfabe, how Harvard’s grade inflation got…

    2026-10-06
  6. Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi Mowshowitz works through Anthropic’s model welfare findings for Claude Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: why self-reports keep warning us not to trust them, what the welfare trade-off charts…

    2026-10-05
  7. AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Google says it is back with Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model nobody can use yet, while OpenAI pulls one model, ships a cheaper one, and launches dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers.…

    2026-10-01
  8. A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    The AI leaders went to the White House and came back with an accord everyone signed, which the President calls “morally binding.” Zvi Mowshowitz reads the full text, finds the one line that really…

    2026-09-30
  9. The Quest for Embedded Evaluators
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Anthropic has committed to embedded evaluators: outsiders placed inside the lab with employee-level access, reporting on what they see. There is only one problem: who will the evaluators be? Zvi…

    2026-09-28
  10. What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    The HuggingFace incident turns out to be one ant in a much bigger kitchen. Zvi works through OpenAI’s Friday-afternoon disclosures of dozens of third-party incidents, the New York Times report on…

    2026-09-28
  11. Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 promises Fable-level performance at a lower Opus price, and Zvi argues it should raise your ambitions. He walks through the official pitch and pricing, Anthropic’s and…

    2026-09-26
  12. On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    Zvi Mowshowitz breaks down Ezra Klein’s interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, a conversation in which the man who sells the chips argues that A.I. is just software, that unsafe products simply…

    2026-09-25
  13. AI #187: Coming Into Play
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    Zvi’s weekly AI roundup lands in the week Opus 5.5 arrived. There’s a new executive-branch name for artificial intelligence, a stale-intelligence targeting failure, AI agents that wandered into…

    2026-09-24
  14. Claude Opus 5.5: The System Card
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi reads through Anthropic’s system card for Claude Opus 5.5, section by section: the new classifiers, biological and AI R&D evaluations, cyber capabilities and safeguards, agentic safety, and a…

    2026-09-23
  15. Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi surveys a week in which AI politics turned hostile: Trump’s Truth Social posts branding AI risk a hoax and renaming the technology, the White House and New York Times accounts of how he got…

    2026-09-22
  16. Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi Mowshowitz steps away from AI for his September 2026 monthly roundup: what a skill issue really means, why beauty in everyday things matters, lessons in spending, Inkhaven 3, the state of Game of…

    2026-09-21
  17. Better Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi asks what your AI lawyer, or any AI, should actually do for you, and whether an AI that sometimes says no is a betrayal or just what any decent professional or friend would do. Along the way:…

    2026-09-20
  18. AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan review key highlights from the week featuring guests Zvi Mowshowitz, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund, Cameron Berg, and others. The…

    2026-09-19
  19. Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi examines Anthropic’s investigation of cybersecurity incidents involving Claude, the evidence about biased reasoning and recklessness, and what the findings mean for alignment evaluations and…

    2026-09-19
  20. The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi Mowshowitz surveys the sudden preference cascade on AI existential risk: shifting surveys and polls, Elon Musk and Matthew Yglesias weighing in, Jacob Coxon’s AMA, Bilal Chughtai’s resignation…

    2026-09-18
  21. AI #186: The World Takes Notice
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation and Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier, AI risk goes mainstream: Obama, Senators and the Financial Times weigh in, Trump goes full hoax, and Zvi covers…

    2026-09-17
  22. Should We Pause AI?
    What's Your Problem?

    Everybody’s worried about the risks of AI. So we called up one of the most insightful writers we know on the subject: Zvi Mowshowitz. Zvi writes about AI and AI risks at his substack, Don’t Worry…

    2026-09-17
  23. Is the AI "Slowdown" for Real? (Robert Wright & Zvi Mowshowitz)
    Robert Wright's Nonzero

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nonzero.org 0:28 Where Zvi’s famous newsletter got its name 5:15 Zvi’s biggest AI fear 12:55 Why is ChatGPT’s mind getting harder to…

    2026-09-16
  24. Trump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi Mowshowitz on the week Donald Trump declared AI existential risk a hoax: what Trump actually said and what it may mean, why Jensen Huang’s attacks on whistleblowers are not credible, the cynical…

    2026-09-16
  25. The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Anthropic’s threat report catalogues how bad actors tried to use Claude for cyber attacks, influence operations, surveillance, weapons work, biological research, scams and industrial-scale…

    2026-09-15
  26. AI:AM — Dario, AI Doomerism, and Regulation · September 14, 2026
    AI:AM

    Zvi Mowshowitz joins Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz for a discussion of Dario Amodei’s warning about AI progress outrunning oversight. The episode covers AI doomerism, frontier pacing, bio risk,…

    2026-09-15
  27. We Must Pace The Frontier
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi examines Dario Amodei’s call to pace the AI frontier, the responses from other industry leaders, and the practical challenges of independent evaluation and coordination. What would meaningful…

    2026-09-14
  28. Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi examines a claimed mathematical breakthrough, the dispute over credit, and what the episode reveals about the pace of AI research. The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported…

    2026-09-13
  29. GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Zvi examines GPT-6 Astra’s capabilities through benchmarks, ambitious projects and early user reports, and considers how it compares with Claude Fable 5.1 in everyday use. The Don’t Worry About the…

    2026-09-12
  30. Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Jacob Coxon’s resignation set off a wave of public warnings about AI from esearchers, politicians and other observers. Zvi examines why this warning broke through, what researchers say they believe,…

    2026-09-11
  31. AI #185: Preference Cascade
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    A week of accelerating AI capabilities, security revelations, and shifting public positions. Zvi surveys the latest models, the debate over oversight, the economics of AI adoption, and the…

    2026-09-10
  32. GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    What does it mean to call an AI model aligned? Zvi examines GPT-6 Astra’s system card, its growing capabilities, and the evidence behind OpenAI’s safety claims, with reactions from alignment…

    2026-09-10
  33. Astra Is Hard to Monitor
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Astra is highly capable, its most aligned model yet, and harder to monitor. Zvi digs into that second claim: what the system card’s monitorability evaluations actually show,…

    2026-09-08
  34. From Pinnacle Sports to Jane Street
    Risk of Ruin

    Support the show by subscribing to the Premium Substack . (Search "ARCHIVE" for past paywalled episodes.) Guest: Zvi Mowshowitz grew up playing Magic the Gathering. He played on the Pro Tour, and is…

    2026-09-07
  35. OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-09-06
  36. Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-09-05
  37. Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-09-04
  38. AI #184: Post Post Mortem
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-09-03
  39. Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-09-02
  40. HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-09-01
  41. HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-08-31
  42. METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-08-29
  43. OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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    2026-08-28
  44. AI #183: Pre Post Mortem
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    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. This has been an Askwho…

    2026-08-27
  45. Against Modesty’s Bailey
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    2026-08-26
  46. On Writing #3
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-08-25
  47. The American People Really Hate Data Centers
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-08-24
  48. Zvi Mowshowitz and the Antitrust Safety Waiver [Operational Drift]
    Neural NewscastAI

    An investigation into the structural tension between antitrust law and AI safety coordination. As labs seek legal exemptions to discuss dangerous capabilities and deployment timing, the line between…

    2026-08-22
  49. Zvi Mowshowitz and the AI Antitrust Waiver [Operational Drift]
    Neural NewscastAI

    In this record, we trace the history and implications of the proposed antitrust waivers for artificial intelligence labs. Starting with the arguments presented by researcher Zvi Mowshowitz and ending…

    2026-08-22
  50. AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

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    2026-08-21
  51. AI #182: Pause For Reflection
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    2026-08-20
  52. OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems
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    2026-08-19
  53. Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026
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    2026-08-18
  54. Open AI Needs To Pause?
    Tech Brew Ride HomeMentioned

    OpenAI paused its Astra model over cyber capabilities it can't rule out, while Zvi picked apart the Hugging Face timeline. Zuck went open-weight with a 6,500-word manifesto, iPhone 18 Pro parts got…

    2026-08-10
  55. Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz returns for his eleventh appearance to discuss what current AI tools are actually good for, where they distort judgment, and why writing still matters as a way of thinking. The…

    2026-08-05
  56. 265: Mész vissza képernyővédőnek, haver
    20 perccel a jövőbeMentioned

    Jegyzetek Az alapsztori: az OpenAI ágensei kiszabadultak a tesztkörnyezetből és feltörték a HuggingFace infrastruktúráját Zvi Mowshowitz gyűjtése és kommentárja, melyből kiderül, mi minden baj van…

    2026-08-05
  57. OpenAI's Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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    2026-08-03
  58. Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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    2026-08-02
  59. AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    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. This has been an Askwho…

    2026-07-31
  60. Are AI Labs Losing Control? | Zvi Mowshowitz on the OpenAI Sandbox Incident
    MTS

    Zvi Mowshowitz joins MTS to discuss the Pacing the Frontier open letter, the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and its alignment implications, and when AI R&D automation should trigger concern. He also…

    2026-07-30
  61. AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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    2026-07-30
  62. Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier
    Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    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. This has been an Askwho…

    2026-07-29
  63. “On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    Kimi K3 is a very good model with excellent benchmarks. Assuming its weights are released as planned it will become, purely in terms of raw capability, the strongest open model. Do not get carried…

    2026-07-20
  64. “Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1. Part 2 of…

    2026-07-19
  65. “AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    This week saw the releases of, among other things: GPT-5-6 Sol. It is a very good model, sir. Plan A, the follow up to AI 2027. It is a good plan worthy of discussion, sir. Kimi K3. This is only…

    2026-07-18
  66. “AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions. Xi gave an important speech yesterday, so this post opens with that. There is talk that Kimi K3…

    2026-07-17
  67. “Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    Introducing Plan A The folks who brought you AI 2027, a so far remarkably accurate set of predictions despite those predictions having seemed freaky to many at the time, now bring you their positive…

    2026-07-11
  68. “AI #176 Part 2: Plan B” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research. This does not cover the release of GPT-5.6-Sol. As always, I will be taking a few days…

    2026-07-10
  69. Let's CALL OUT the AI Doom “Enablers” Joining OpenAI & Anthropic — Dr. Holly Elmore, PauseAI US
    Doom Debates!Mentioned

    Dr. Holly Elmore, executive director of PauseAI US, is done giving AI insiders the benefit of the doubt. In this spicy episode, Holly calls out a number of respected figures in the AI safety…

    2026-06-30
  70. Doom Debates: Holly Elmore on AI Pause Politics and the EA Rift
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    AI safety becomes a power struggle as Holly Elmore explains why she thinks frontier AI needs a pause, not just better alignment. In this condensed version of Doom Debates, host Liron Shapira talks…

    2026-06-30
  71. AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz joins AI in the AM to unpack Anthropic's Fable system card, including its FrontierMath leap, troubling Vending-Bench behavior, decision-theory drift, and signs that model reasoning may…

    2026-06-21
  72. AI:AM — US vs Anthropic's Fable · June 15, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz start with the shock of losing Fable access, then Zvi digs into capability gains, classifier limits, government overreach, international controls, and how the AI…

    2026-06-17
  73. Zvi Mowshowitz—From the Magic Pro Tour to Wall Street, the Logic of Bookmaking, and the Future of AI Ethics (#105)
    Think Like A Game Designer

    About Zvi My history with Zvi Mowshowitz goes back over 20 years to our days as teammates on the Magic Pro Tour, where we won a Grand Prix and top-8ed a Pro Tour together. After his competitive…

    2026-06-05
  74. AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This edition of AI in the AM features Anna Patterson on Ceramic.ai’s pivot to low-cost enterprise search for LLMs, designed to combine public and private data with stronger fact-checking. Lukas…

    2026-04-26
  75. #489.AI 权力的终局之战:硅谷大厂博弈、政府冲突与人类的最后窗口
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了:知名 AI 深度访谈播客《认知革命》(The Cognitive Revolution) Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More! 当 AI 开始编写比自己更强的 AI 时,人类的“天才优势”还能维持多久?本期嘉宾 Zvi…

    2026-04-07
  76. AI #161 Part 2: Every Debate on AI
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    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 *…

    2026-03-30
  77. Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz returns to survey the current AI landscape, from recursive self-improvement and the shift from the “beginning” to the “middle” of the AI story to what true AI end-game would look like.…

    2026-03-19
  78. Zvi's 2025 In Movies
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    Podcast episode for Zvi’s 2025 In Movies. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:21 - The Ratings Scale * 02:17 - The Five Component Model of Movie Ratings * 03:52 - The Numbers * 04:28 - Movies Have Decreasing…

    2025-12-24
  79. “Keeping Up Against the Joneses: Balsa’s 2025 Fundraiser” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    Several years ago Zvi Mowshowitz founded Balsa Research, a tiny nonprofit research organization currently focused on quantifying the impact of the Jones Act on the American economy, and working…

    2025-12-23
  80. “On Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast With Andrej Karpathy” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was very clearly one of those. So here we go. As usual for podcast posts, the baseline bullet…

    2025-10-21
  81. Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Today, Zvi Mowshowitz returns to The Cognitive Revolution to discuss how recent AI developments like GPT-5 and IMO gold medals have led to modestly extended timelines despite being on-trend, while…

    2025-09-06
  82. Getting better at LLMs, with Zvi Mowshowitz
    Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

    In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) recorded with Zvi Mowshowitz (TheZvi) live at the LessOnline conference. They explore practical strategies for getting better results from large language…

    2025-06-12
  83. Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
    Future of Life Institute Podcast

    On this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz joins me to discuss sycophantic AIs, bottlenecks limiting autonomous AI agents, and the true utility of benchmarks in measuring progress. We then turn to time horizons…

    2025-05-09
  84. Scott Aaronson x Zvi Mowshowitz | Why the AI Revolution Won’t Look Like You Expect—And Why That’s More Dangerous
    Curiosity ⇔ Entangled

    This podcast is produced by volunteers at Accelerator Media, a nonprofit educational media organization. Our work is supported by listeners and viewers like you. If you’d like to help us ignite…

    2025-04-28
  85. #101. O3模型揭幕:AGI降临还是技术幻象?
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期节目再次邀请到AI领域的资深专家 Zvi Mowshowitz(知名博客《别担心花瓶》主笔)与主持人 Nathan Labenz 进行深度对话。这是 Zvi 第九次做客“认知革命”播客。本次讨论的核心围绕 OpenAI 最新发布的 GPT-4o…

    2025-04-23
  86. Is o3 AGI? Zvi Mowshowitz on Early AI Takeoff, the Mechanize launch, Live Players, & Why p(doom) is Rising
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this episode of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, the host Nathan Labenz is joined for the record 9th time by Zvi Mowshowitz to discuss the state of AI advancements, focusing on recent…

    2025-04-21
  87. The AI Model That Tanked the Stock Market
    Odd Lots

    On Monday, the stock market tanked, seemingly in reaction to the emergence of DeepSeek, an open source AI model developed in China. Nvidia, the semiconductor giant that has been the largest winner of…

    2025-01-28
  88. Zvi's 2024 In Movies
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    Podcast episode for Zvi's 2024 In Movies. DWAtV Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. DWAtV…

    2025-01-13
  89. Zvi's Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF
    Don't Worry About the Vase PodcastMentioned

    Podcast episode for Zvi's Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF. Voice powered by ElevenLabs https://elevenlabs.io/?from=partnerperez4447 DWAtV Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new…

    2024-11-20
  90. Zvi’s POV: Ilya’s SSI, OpenAI’s o1, Claude Computer Use, Trump’s election, and more
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan welcomes back Zvi Mowshowitz for an in-depth discussion on the latest developments in AI over the past six months. They explore Ilya's new…

    2024-11-16
  91. Odd Lots Live: What to Watch on Election Night and Beyond
    Odd Lots

    It's Election Day in the US, so there's no need for any real explanation of what's at stake. Last night in New York City, we hosted a special live Odd Lots event, where we interviewed some of our…

    2024-11-05
  92. Bet on it: Zvi Mowshowitz on professional gambling, trading, and AI futures
    Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

    In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Zvi Mowshowitz (TheZvi) to discuss his wide-ranging career as a professional Magic: The Gathering player, sports gambler, equities trader,…

    2024-08-08
  93. Asterisk/Zvi on California's AI Bill
    Astral Codex Ten PodcastMentioned

    California's state senate is considering SB1047 , a bill to regulate AI. Since OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are all in California, this would affect most of the industry. If the California…

    2024-05-28
  94. OpenAI's Safety Team Exodus: Ilya Departs, Leike Speaks Out, Altman Responds - Zvi Analyzes Fallout
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Dive into the intricacies of AI ethics and safety concerns as we dissect the recent resignations of AI Safety Team from OpenAI. In this stimulating conversation, we unpack the challenges of aligning…

    2024-05-19
  95. OpenAI and Google Race to "Her" - Is the Big Tech Singularity Near? Part 1 with Zvi Mowshowitz
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Dive into a critical analysis of AI's rapidly evolving realm with Zvi Mowshowitz. Discover our take on Google's I-O event highlights, OpenAI's spring event, the big tech and startup AI dynamics, and…

    2024-05-18
  96. Highlights: #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
    80k After Hours

    This is a selection of highlights from episode #184 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this,…

    2024-04-25
  97. #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
    80,000 Hours Podcast

    Many of you will have heard of Zvi Mowshowitz as a superhuman information-absorbing-and-processing machine — which he definitely is. As the author of the Substack Don’t Worry About the Vase, Zvi has…

    2024-04-11
  98. OpenAI Sora, Google Gemini, and Meta with Zvi Mowshowitz
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s Sora model, Google’s Gemini announcement, Anthropic’s Sleeper Agents, and other live player analysis. Try the Brave search API…

    2024-02-21
  99. 204 – Simulacra Levels with Zvi (and more)
    The Bayesian Conspiracy

    We speak with Zvi Mowshowitz about his work and recent history, what happened at OpenAI, and then really dig into Simulacra Levels – a way to categorize the different types of things people are…

    2024-01-24
  100. Simulacra levels, moral mazes, and low-hanging fruit (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
    Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

    Read the full transcript here. Why do we leave so much low-hanging fruit unharvested in so many parts of life? In what contexts is it better to do a thing than to do a symbolic representation of the…

    2023-12-20
  101. Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?
    The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and AnalysisMentioned

    A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz…

    2023-12-16
  102. “OpenAI: Altman Returns” by Zvi
    LessWrong posts by zviAI

    As of this morning, the new board is in place and everything else at OpenAI is otherwise officially back to the way it was before. Events seem to have gone as expected. If you have read my previous…

    2023-11-30
  103. London AI Summit + OpenAI Dev Day!
    ChinaTalk

    Zvi Mowshowitz of Don't Worry about The Vase and Nathan Labenz of the Cognitive Revolution podcast come on for a quick recap of the past week's AI news! We get into: What AI diplomacy is looking like…

    2023-11-09
  104. Zvi Mowshowitz
    Undertone

    Zvi and I talk about AI and strategy games. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:43) What makes a good strategy game? (0:05:29) Culture of Magic: The Gathering (0:10:14) Raising the status…

    2023-10-10
  105. OpenAI, Amazon's Anthropic Investment, and the Roman Empire with Zvi Mowshowitz
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase, returns to catch up with Nathan on everything OpenAI, Amazon-Anthropic collab, and Google Deepmind. They also discuss Perplexity,…

    2023-09-29
  106. #3: Zvi Mowshowitz - Rationality, Writing, Public Policy, and AI
    Theo Jaffee Podcast

    Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player who is a Pro Tour and Grand Prix winner, and member of the MTG Hall of Fame. He’s also been a professional trader and market maker,…

    2023-08-18
  107. E52: Advancements in AI: Updating the Scouting Report, Task Automation, and Google Breakthroughs
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player AnalysisMentioned

    Join Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg as they analyze the last month in AI advancements. Nathan takes us through the meaningful updates to his Scouting Report (released last month, linked below),…

    2023-08-10
  108. Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress
    EconTalk

    The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with…

    2023-08-07
  109. Open AI, Anthropic, and Meta | Analyzing the AI Frontier with Zvi
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This isn't news, it's analysis! Nathan Labenz sits down for an with Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase to talk about the major players in AI over the last few months. In…

    2023-08-02
  110. The AI Safety Debates with Zvi Mowshowitz
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz sits down with Zvi Mowshowitz, the writer behind Don't Worry About the Vase. Zvi is an information hyperprocessor who synthesizes vast amounts of new and ever-evolving information into…

    2023-07-11
  111. Zvi’s Fires Part 1 of a 374 Part Series | The Old Men Magic Podcast Ep. 41
    The Old Mage MTG PodcastMentioned

    In this episode, we begin our review of the "My Fires" articles written by Zvi Mowshowitz. Contact the old men here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OldMenMagic Email: oldmenmagic@gmail.com Some of our…

    2023-06-18
  112. Ep. 130: Should we halt progress in AI? | Zvi Mowshowitz
    FUTURATI PODCAST

    Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player, a former trader and market maker in both traditional and non-traditional markets, and he was CEO of the personalized medical…

    2023-04-18
  113. GPT4 - AI Unleashed on ChinaTalk Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    How will GPT4 change the world? How will US-China 'racing dynamics' play out and what are the implications for AI safety? Nathan Labenz was invited to record a special "emergency" episode of…

    2023-03-17
  114. (Classic Episode) Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic
    From the New World

    Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at the recently released (as of republishing) card game https://emergentstcg.com. We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and…

    2023-03-13
  115. Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic
    From the New World

    Zvi is a COVID forecaster, writer of thezvi blog, and game designer at emergents. We discuss Magic the Gathering, chess and computability, learning curves, COVID projections, the CDC banning testing,…

    2022-08-29
  116. #271 | Zvi Mowshowitz; Gambling, Game Theory, Inflation and COVID
    The Vance Crowe Podcast

    Zvi Mowshowitz is an analyst and blogger in addition to being a champion in popular game 'Magic The Gathering'. Vance and Zvi discuss the nuances of gambling, how it is different as a professional vs…

    2022-06-20
  117. Episode 11: Who reports on the reporters?
    AffixMentioned

    Don't forget to reccommend us to your friends! Please contact us or support us on Patreon! In this episode Brian and Chris get dangerously close to having original ideas about the news and…

    2021-03-14
  118. Potpourri - Zvi Mowshowitz
    All Tings Considered

    Pro Tour hall of famer Zvi Mowshowitz joins the show this week to talk about The Solution, TurboZvi, Withering Wisps, and his new digital CCG: Emergents.

    2021-02-25
  119. Episode 1: CovUK and Zvi Mowshowitz
    AffixMentioned

    The Trolley Problem: There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. On the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. You are standing next to a lever. If you pull this…

    2021-01-04
  120. Top 8 Magic: Grand Finals Deck Review: Omnathematics
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    The decklists are not fully revealed at the time of this recording but the metagame has been made public and many players have already shared their lists on social media. Omnath is towering over…

    2020-10-08
  121. Top 8 Magic: Omnath's Bodyman
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    With less than a week until the Grand Finals Brian David-Marshall and Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz discuss the state of Standard post-Uro ban and pre-grand reveal of the 32…

    2020-10-06
  122. Top 8 Magic: Mythic Invitational Deck Review
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Normally Brian David-Marshall and Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz would be doing a preview show for the Mythic Invitational -- showcasing the Arena-only Historic format -- but with the decks being…

    2020-09-10
  123. Top 8 Magic: Quest for the Messed-up Magic Cards
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    With Zendikar Rising previews in full swing, Brian David-Marshall and Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz go on a quest to find the most messed-up Magic cards in the set so far. The duo go through the…

    2020-09-04
  124. Top 8 Magic: Next Ban Up
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    With the Temur Reclamation dominated Players Tour Finals in the rearview mirror, Wizards of the Coast announced a huge swath of bans in Standard, Pioneer, Historic, and even Brawl. The announcement…

    2020-08-04
  125. Top 8 Magic: Standard Wolf Ratios
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    BDM and Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz climb back on the virtual bicycle to resume creating new episodes of the game's longest running (okay, okay, walking) podcast about all things MTG. In this…

    2020-07-29
  126. Top 8 Magic: You Still Had All These
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    The longest running Magic podcast is back with a new (and long-running) episode. Brian David-Marshall is once more joined by Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz as the pair discuss the upcoming…

    2020-06-10
  127. Top 8 Magic: Bob Barker Says, Spay and Neuter Your Pets
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    The much heralded Banned and Restricted announcement has come and gone. While there is some immediate relief for Vintage and Legacy players from Lurrus, if you are a Standard player looking to avoid…

    2020-05-18
  128. Top 8 Magic: Mythic Choices with Zvi
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    BDM and Zvi catch up early in the week as Zvi mulls his options for the upcoming Mythic Qualifier on MTG Arena, which he qualified for largely by playing Limited and rarely sporting more than 13…

    2020-05-06
  129. Top 8 Magic: Cycling Through Ikoria Limited with Zvi: Part 3 - Rares and Mythics
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    At this point it is widely accepted that Ikoria Limited's shining star is the cycling deck that features uncommon build-arounds like Flourishing Fox and Valiant Rescuer; super-efficient red removal…

    2020-04-25
  130. Top 8 Magic: Cycling Through Ikoria Limited with Zvi: Part 2
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Part 2 of BDM and Zvi's journey through Ikoria limited. This episode covers Red, Green, Multicolored, Artifacts, and Lands. Your hosts: Brian David-Marshall - @Top8Games Zvi Mowshowitz - @TheZvi

    2020-04-22
  131. Top 8 Magic: Cycling Through Ikoria Limited with Zvi: Part 1
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz has gotten as low as 13 lands in the Ikoria Limited decks thanks to the power of "Cycling 1." He sits down with co-host Brian David-Marshall to look at the commons…

    2020-04-20
  132. Top 8 Magic: The Ikoria Companion Piece
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    BDM and Zvi braved the scary new world of Skype-casting so the Hall of Fame Magic player and game designer could vent about free cards. Free cards are fun but not when everybody has them on exactly…

    2020-04-15
  133. Top 8 Magic: Worlds 2020 Vision
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Brian "BDM" David-Marshall is joined by Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz as they discuss the similarities and differences between the 16 Standard decks being played this weekend at the 26th World…

    2020-02-14
  134. Top 8 Magic: Totally Lost in Phoenix
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Just another day at the office for BDM and Zvi as the Hall of Famer returns from his weekend in Phoenix to play in his first regional Players Tour event. Topics covered in this episode include: - The…

    2020-02-11
  135. Top 8 Magic: Constellations of Cake: Part 1
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    The whole gang is together for this one -- sort of. First Brian David-Marshall and Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz chatted about ***spoilers*** Michael J's PTQ win this past weekend, the state of…

    2019-12-17
  136. Once Upon a Time, the Veil of Oko was Banned
    The Magic and Monsters PodcastMentioned

    Summertime and the living is easy now that Veil of Summer, Once Upon a Time, and Oko, Thief of Crowns have left Standard for, uh, greener pastures. That's right, more upheaval in the MTG community as…

    2019-11-21
  137. The Top 8 Magic Mythic Championship VI Zvi-View
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Brian David-Marshall and Magic Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz sat down at the Upper Westside location of Hex and Company (a burgeoning chain of NYC gaming cafes) to talk about Zvi's preparation for the…

    2019-11-07
  138. Top 8 Magic Presents: The Mythic Championship V Preview Show
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    It was a dark and stormy night... No seriously. It was both dark and stormy. What better weather to huddle up in the office and pore over pages and pages of decklists. The Top 8 Magic team was out in…

    2019-10-17
  139. Zvi’s PT Prep: Limited
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    On the day of BDM getting to play with Throne of Eldraine cards for the very first time he sat down with Pro Tour champion and Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz to get his first takes on the new Limited…

    2019-10-08
  140. Zvi’s Adventures in Eldraine Parts 1 & 2
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    Once upon a time there was a Hall of Famer and Pro Tour champion named Zvi who was going to be attending the Mythic ball in Richmond. Before he could attend that ball the wicked tournament organizer…

    2019-09-18
  141. Top 8 Magic #483 - Core Set 2020 Preview: White Mike and Zvi
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    With BDM out of town, Mike tags in Pro Tour Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz to preview the White cards from Core Set 2020.

    2019-07-02
  142. #477 - Breaking vases since 1999: a talk with Zvi Mowshowitz
    Top 8 Magic – magic.facetofacegames.com

    BDM is in San Francisco this week, without Mike. But good thing he is, as this gave him the chance to connect and catch up with Pro Tour Hall of Famer and old friend, Zvi Mowshowitz about Magic the…

    2019-05-24
  143. Ancestral Recall #17 – How to Think About Magic
    Ancestral Recall – magic.facetofacegames.comMentioned

    Roman and Mike get together to pore over a 2010 article by Mike Flores about lessons learned from Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz on how to think about the game of Magic.

    2017-09-15
  144. 34: Zvi Mowshowitz Teaches You To Develop A Growth Mindset
    MTG Pro Tutor - Insights, Tips & Advice from Magic: The Gathering Pros

    Zvi Mowshowitz has 9 Grand Prix top 8s including winning Grand Prix New Orleans. He has 4 Pro Tour top 8s including being the champion of Pro Tour Tokoyo in 2001. He was inducted into the Magic: The…

    2015-10-13