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  • AI For Humans
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  • Eye on AI
  • Gradient Dissent
  • Interconnects
  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
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  • 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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

3 topics highlighted · 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

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Safety & governance · 14% · Sep 21–27, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

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

Sep 21–27, 2026

14%About the sameUp 1.2 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 · Sep 21–27, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 12.8% to 14%, with evidence across 10 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%” and “Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 10 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

13 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck

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    “if we want to get to this beautiful future we all want, we have to navigate the risks really carefully.”
    Open episode and seek to 22:43

    ConceptSafety & governance

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    “Have you seen the sort of mercenary profile start to enter the AI safety space? Like, have you actually got the sense from individuals that are pitching you that, like, I don't really think you're in this for the reasons that I would want you to be in order to Back you?”
    Open episode and seek to 52:15

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    “Assuming especially the labs go public, so much liquidity is going to open up for AI safety.”
    Open episode and seek to 53:38

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Last Week in AI

#257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents

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    “let's say I'm skeptical of that as an alignment metric”
    Play from 10:23

    ConceptSafety & governance

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    “I mean, there's not been time to really do alignment evaluations properly, I don't think”
    Play from 12:25

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    “there's a pretty high likelihood that During the development of these models, they're running these relatively narrow evaluations of alignment, of cheating, et cetera, et cetera, seeing the scores, tweaking the training runs to do better”
    Play from 23:34

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Latent Space

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

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    “It was important to not only push on the biological design capabilities of these models, but also the ability to use them as defensive tools um for the potential of um misuse and biological risk that emerges.”
    Open episode and seek to 09:35

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    “We believe and see a gap in companies being able to safeguard that technology and make sure that it's used responsibly um increasingly more.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:11:09

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint

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    “we have to plan for advanced models from an alignment perspective”
    Play from 44:41

    ConceptSafety & governance

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    “we now know we have to assume these things are basically superhuman and we have to put our alignment in place accordingly”
    Play from 50:24

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