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  • AI For Humans
  • AI Inside
  • AI Today Podcast
  • Eye on AI
  • Gradient Dissent
  • Interconnects
  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
  • Me, Myself, and AI
  • No Priors
  • Practical AI
  • The AI Daily Brief
  • The AI Native Dev
  • The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • The Cognitive Revolution
  • The TWIML AI Podcast
  • Training Data

Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

11 topics shown · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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Topic attention across published weeksEach colored line uses the same attention scale. Only topics with published measurements are shown; their shares do not necessarily total 100%. Breaks mean missing measurements, not zero. Dated dots open that topic and week below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%Jul 13Jul 20Jul 27Aug 3Aug 10Aug 17Aug 24Aug 31Sep 7Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28Adoption Use Cases: About the same in the latest reportAdoption Use Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

Direction compares the latest report with recent weeks; small changes are “About the same,” and gaps mean no measurement.

Safety & governance · 13.7% · Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

Ways to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.

Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026

13.7%Gaining attentionUp 3 percentage points from last week

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Safety & governance, week by weekDated controls show each week's attention share. Gaps mean no qualifying measurement, not zero. Select a week to read its discussion below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%
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Safety & governance · Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 10.7% to 13.7%, with evidence across 11 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era” and “Less about Models; More about Architecture”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

10 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era

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    “Wednesday's other fight. Dean Ball, who now leads a strategy team at OpenAI, had published an essay apologising for years of understating AI risk in public. I and many of my colleagues largely failed to talk about this issue with the seriousness and urgency it required. David ...”
    Open episode and seek to 1:41:36

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  2. B
    “I do have my doubts that we're going to figure it out in time to avoid running some serious risk”
    Open episode and seek to 2:06:18

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  3. A
    “I don't believe they can do harmful things and not have that financial system come back and say, no, we're not going to fund you now”
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Practical AI

Less about Models; More about Architecture

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  1. E
    “how do you ensure that it behaves within guardrails, right? It behaves in a way that is um suitable for your enterprise, right? So, the problem of governance and assurance becomes very important.”
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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, AI Disclosure & Vanishing Entry Level Roles

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    “Like just disclose it because, um, it doesn't do any harm. But I don't think we're at the point where we need to make like a huge deal of it anymore.”
    Play from 44:12

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AI Inside

What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face

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  1. C
    “However, that only works if your machines are reachable and you don't have guardrails against it, right?”
    Play from 34:09

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  2. C
    “appear surprised by security breaches from AI systems that were specifically instructed to perform security breaches while having essentially no traditional cybersecurity guardrails”
    Play from 47:16

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AI Today Podcast

AI Adoption Challenges and Leadership: Insights from Jennifer Tharp

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    “evaluation awareness, where the AI knows it's being tested and just kind of like works to the test and doesn't do exactly what you want it to.”
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    “We don't want to reach the point where QA is starting to irritate people because it's taking so long and then people want to do shortcuts because that uh introduces so much risk.”
    Play from 29:11

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