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80,000 Hours Podcast

OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post)

Oct 9, 2026 · 40m

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This is an (unpaid) cross-post of a video from the podcast 'AI Explained', which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in. You can find the original on YouTube here . If you like it and want more similar stuff in future consider subscribing to AI Explained on YouTube , Spotify , Apple or wherever you get podcasts. —— "This video is hard to summarise. A cracked cipher, an OpenAI security warning, Gemini 4 Argon, RSI paper (co-authored by a who’s who of AI), Lab White House commitments, new hacks emerging, ‘deep personas’, biology Kasparov competitions, and so much more, ending with an epic Opus outro." Introduction (00:01:40) Wrong about Opus 5.5? Deciphering 16th Century Text…