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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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

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Safety & governance · 11.7% · Aug 3–9, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

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

Aug 3–9, 2026

11.7%Gaining attentionDown 4.8 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 3–9, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 16.5% to 11.7%, with evidence across 11 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent” and “Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...”.
How to read it
5 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

10 quoted moments · 5 episodes · 4 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

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  1. C
    “that's sort of how you generalize from interpretability as like a factoring tool to interpretability as a tool for alignment.”
    Open episode and seek to 41:41

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  2. C
    “we're going to have to continue to be very thoughtful in our, in like what guardrails we apply”
    Open episode and seek to 1:27:48

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  3. C
    “I think we have to sort of get in front of, of some of these risks before they become more severe.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:30:15

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The Cognitive Revolution

Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...

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  1. B
    “If you say that's aligned, then I don't care about the thing you're calling alignment.”
    Open episode and seek to 29:47

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  2. B
    “That is aligned in the sense that you solved the alignment problem and got to do what you want to do, but also we're all super dead.”
    Open episode and seek to 42:54

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  3. A
    “Do you have a best-case scenario for what safe superintelligence might be up to? Could you imagine anything that feels Both somewhat realistic and, wow, that would be amazing if they could come forward with something like what you have in mind.”
    Open episode and seek to 2:27:33

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#228: More Rogue AI Agents, AI Lab Staff Ask Washington to Pace Development, Continuing Battle Over Open Weights & OpenAI Previews Astra

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  1. A
    “We may be one turn away on frontier models models to where these researchers do no longer feel comfortable that they fully understand what the models are capable of and how to put guardrails in place to safely release them into the world.”
    Play from 33:39

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  2. A
    “mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently capable models, open and Closed seems reasonable.”
    Play from 47:44

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Last Week in AI

#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

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  1. B
    “I also expect that our alignment kind of efforts will start to lag more and more behind capabilities over time.”
    Play from 1:26:44

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Gradient Dissent

40 Trillion Tokens a Day (Yes, More Than OpenAI) | Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks

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  1. B
    “Is that right? My understanding is it was using— it was testing Exploit Jam, which is a cybersecurity attack benchmark, and that's just starting to go wild.”
    Play from 43:45

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