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  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
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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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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

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

Safety & governance · 13.5% · Sep 7–13, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

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

Sep 7–13, 2026

13.5%About the sameDown 0.2 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 7–13, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 13.7% to 13.5%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism” and “Anthropic Researcher Says AI Has Over a 10% Chance of Killing All Humans”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

11 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism

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    “don't you need to bring a broader bundle of kind of guardrails and assurances to customers?”
    Open episode and seek to 1:03:37

    ConceptSafety & governance

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Interconnects

One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

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    “The entire discourse around existential risk is on poor footing.”
    Open episode and seek to 01:20

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  2. A
    “If AI labs are not able to do enough safety research themselves to understand the models, they should be more transparent on what is happening so more scientists can make progress on the problem.”
    Open episode and seek to 10:04

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#238: How a 700-Person Bank Is Using AI to Build Apps, Agents, and Digital Employees

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  1. A
    “our key guardrail is that AI cannot replace a control. It can supplement controls.”
    Play from 30:00

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Machine Learning Street Talk

AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen

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  1. B
    “It would be safer. Like, I think still there'd be lots of serious alignment concerns in that world, but I think it would be a little bit safer because of the reason you mentioned, where um it might be easier to oversee what's going on if there's lots of different specialised a...”
    Open episode and seek to 48:10

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  2. B
    “Alignment means it has the personality traits, the goals, the values, et cetera, that it is supposed to have.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:01:37

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  3. A
    “you're not going to be able to figure out if the AI is aligned via behavioural evaluation alone”
    Open episode and seek to 1:04:08

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Last Week in AI

#256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash

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  1. B
    “The funny thing is, for years, at the level of introducing myself, like the first time that somebody hears what I'm doing, I'd be like, yes, I work on either AI safety or I would say sometimes AI security, because shortly after the Trump admin started, safety became a bad word...”
    Play from 00:47

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  2. C
    “watered down to the point where we had to invent super alignment”
    Play from 02:27

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  3. C
    “the incentive is always to for the labs, especially to interpret alignment and loss of control in the way that is easiest for them”
    Play from 02:52

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