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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

2 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

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

Safety & governance · 16.5% · Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

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

Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026

16.5%Gaining attentionUp 12.7 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 · Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 3.8% to 16.5%, with evidence across 8 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics” and “How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 8 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

13 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics

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    “there's not really much point and it might be sort of a waste of time or perhaps even counterproductive to try to get the safety measures to be super robust relative to capabilities that don't exist yet”
    Open episode and seek to 11:26

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    “They want the AI safety hub at the Tsinghua University College of AI to join that upper echelon. And it seems like the resources are there.”
    Open episode and seek to 56:27

    ConceptSafety & governance

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    “those can be made available through a more structured program with know your customer and various other safeguards”
    Open episode and seek to 1:12:36

    ConceptSafety & governance

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Machine Learning Street Talk

How Researchers Test AI for Hidden Goals — Apollo Research

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  1. C
    “Yes. And it is conceivable that this process is accelerating over time, especially like everyone is now talking about continual learning, you know, because right now at least we have a centralized Right? So we have red teaming, we have frontier companies building these models,...”
    Open episode and seek to 30:14

    ConceptSafety & governance

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    “Mythos is the first one where it seems to have insane power to do unexpected things. And like, do you think basically that we're pretty close to the limit here? Like, you know, because at first I thought, yeah, it was bad. It was safety washing, you know, they shouldn't have s...”
    Open episode and seek to 49:48

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    “Now, we essentially started by looking at this method in like a neutral coding style setting. And we also wanted to apply this to a more alignment-relevant context. And so this is where we chose the feature honesty versus task completion. So this is task completion at all cost...”
    Open episode and seek to 1:05:37

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The Cognitive Revolution

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

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    “I think there's an argument that actually maybe too much attention is paid to universal jailbreaks because in principle, a very targeted jailbreak could cause a lot of harm.”
    Open episode and seek to 08:43

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  2. A
    “Than these other categories. So that suggests to me that this is less about know-how or ability to these safeguards in place and more about, I'm not sure exactly what, like, I, I can't imagine that there's like that much revenue coming from like chemical things that would be s...”
    Open episode and seek to 43:13

    ConceptSafety & governance

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    “I think we need to be a little bit more careful when it comes to things like bio and some of these other harm domains where sometimes knowing what the dangerous thing is, is half the battle”
    Open episode and seek to 56:03

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AI For Humans

The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet

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    “they were supposed to be, uh, testing these things and super secure air-gapped Faraday cages because they know what's best”
    Play from 22:47

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