<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[AI StopWatch: Podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readings of the Daily Digest, plus the occasional bonus content. Human written. 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Howe]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[beck@intelligence.org]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[beck@intelligence.org]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Reasoning traces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 11, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-reasoning-traces</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-reasoning-traces</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald Gauvreau]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:51:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210841225/fcef8cf04e26619df9b1552235f4bb35.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: If they were somehow benevolent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 10, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-if-they-were-somehow-benevolent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-if-they-were-somehow-benevolent</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:42:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210692608/f379496e02c843f191d07b36124190c5.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Macrodrama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 9, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-macrodrama</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-macrodrama</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210569147/3c525dc673fa49cbc6092d903e139935.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Words fail us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 8, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-words-fail-us</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-words-fail-us</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:05:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210418274/58564abb4f3a73668c296ea713973ccf.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Starting to stop?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 7, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-starting-to-stop</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-starting-to-stop</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Rogero]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:16:21 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facts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 3, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-observed-facts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-observed-facts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:07:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209725942/941c3c6bdb27c41606e2549879c1f268.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Message at the beep]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from August 2, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-message-at-the-beep</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-message-at-the-beep</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Haven Harms]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:33:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209569975/5cbed8f2e181ae042a5422c674499fdf.mp3" 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isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-broader-activity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Herr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:29:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209061689/153faa83de2d2e96c90e537f0ab4e825.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: To deliberately pace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from July 28, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-to-deliberately-pace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-to-deliberately-pace</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:06:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208917962/8fe03ab680e890b4a6837a06e61893da.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Grubstakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from July 27, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-grubstakes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-grubstakes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:58:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208773279/b4bf9f88b71ff57f46416f85dae3e6c4.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Correction: At the time of recording, Ilya Sutskever was incorrectly described in a dispatch as one of the three &#8220;godfathers of AI.&#8221; <span>That title is commonly accepted to refer to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio.</span><br><br><span>Sutskever, with Hinton, was one of the co-creators of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet">AlexNet</a><span>, which helped kick off the modern AI paradigm. This is probably where I (Mitch) got my wires crossed.</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Either way, you learn something]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from July 26, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-either-way-you-learn-something</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-either-way-you-learn-something</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Haven Harms]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:28:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208627099/f741a2daeb5eb824ce97ffc8685edbfb.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Research velocity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from July 25, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-research-velocity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-research-velocity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Howe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:51:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208512743/a7bfc794b63f1acc1d8190de107bf04b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: The legislative frontier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from July 24, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-the-legislative-frontier</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-the-legislative-frontier</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Rogero]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:09:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208404849/a53ddbecfa9860258f9e324ca5044da9.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Podcast: Incurable try-hards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading of posts from July 23, 2026]]></description><link>https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-incurable-try-hards</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://aistop.watch/p/podcast-incurable-try-hards</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Herr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:10:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208282011/59d5ba3fccf579656338d884275be261.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>