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Week of 16 February 2026

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 19 Feb 2026 Excerpt 38

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

Essay argues AI alignment should be grounded in virtue ethics and practices-based reasoning, not goal-directed logic.

Key points
  • Challenges the orthogonality thesis - the assumption that any AI can pursue any goal - with a philosophical alternative.
  • Primarily academic philosophy; limited direct applicability to APS governance or procurement decisions now.

Week of 19 January 2026

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 22 Jan 2026 42

2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

A year-in-review podcast with Air Street Capital's Nathan Benaich covers 2025 AI progress, regulation, and investment trends.

Key points
  • Topics include sovereign AI requirements, EU AI Act compliance gaps, export controls, and open-weight model safety — all relevant to Australian AI strategy context.
  • This is a VC-investor perspective podcast; it offers useful framing but limited direct APS applicability.

Week of 24 November 2025

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 26 Nov 2025 42

Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems

Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel discusses value alignment, distributive justice, and ethics of advanced AI assistants.

Key points
  • Topics include aligning LLMs with democratic norms, AGI social power dynamics, and the challenge of AI value alignment at scale.
  • A podcast interview format - conceptually rich but not directly actionable for APS practitioners without further engagement.

Week of 2 June 2025

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 4 Jun 2025 32

AGI is Not Multimodal

A researcher argues that multimodal scaling cannot achieve human-level AGI, citing limits in embodied cognition.

Key points
  • The piece challenges assumptions underlying some AI capability forecasts - relevant to how agencies assess AGI risk timelines.
  • Primarily an academic-conceptual argument; limited direct operational relevance for APS practitioners right now.

Week of 23 December 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 26 Dec 2024 38

2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

Annual AI year-in-review podcast covers model capabilities, economics, regulation, and geopolitics across 2024.

Key points
  • Topics span frontier model economics, AGI timelines, DeepSeek, robotics, compute infrastructure, and industry consolidation.
  • Audio-format roundup with no written analysis; low immediate actionability for APS readers despite broad coverage.

Week of 11 November 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 16 Nov 2024 Excerpt 28

Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

A mathematician-AI researcher argues pure mathematics—topology, algebra, geometry—offers tools to deepen ML theory.

Key points
  • The piece challenges the assumption that scaling alone is sufficient for AI progress, advocating theoretical grounding.
  • Academic and technical in focus; limited direct relevance to APS governance or policy practitioners.

Week of 7 October 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 10 Oct 2024 Excerpt 20

Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models

MIT researcher Jacob Andreas discusses language grounding and world models in AI systems.

Key points
  • Research focuses on computational foundations of language learning and human-guided AI - relevant to LLM evaluation debates.
  • Extracted text is a podcast stub with no substantive content - actual interview detail is unavailable.

Week of 23 September 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 26 Sep 2024 18

Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents

Podcast interview with journalist Evan Ratliff exploring his AI voice clone experiment for Shell Game.

Key points
  • Discussion touches on ethical boundaries, societal impacts, and journalism's future with voice AI.
  • Limited direct relevance to APS AI governance - included for context on public discourse around voice agents.

Week of 9 September 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 12 Sep 2024 35

Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment

Google DeepMind's Head of Human-AI Interaction Research discusses HCI, accessibility, and generative AI in depth.

Key points
  • Topics include AGI definitions, anthropomorphisation, consent for generative clones, and bidirectional human-AI alignment.
  • Academic podcast interview - thought-provoking but limited direct applicability to APS governance or policy work.
The Gradient – Substack(Global) 9 Sep 2024 Excerpt 32

What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

LLM benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval may not reflect real user experience or collaborative utility.

Key points
  • The piece argues current evaluation methods are non-interactive and ill-suited for human-AI collaboration models.
  • Academic opinion piece from a Harvard PhD candidate - limited direct policy or APS operational relevance.
The Gradient – Substack(Multi) 10 Sep 2024 Excerpt 25

Mini-Update #47: First International AI Safety Treaty and the WavTokenizer Codec

A Gradient Substack mini-update covers an international AI safety treaty and a technical codec development.

Key points
  • The international AI safety treaty angle may be relevant to Australian AI governance and AISI positioning.
  • Extracted text is paywalled - substantive content is not accessible for analysis.
The Gradient – Substack(Multi) 11 Sep 2024 22

Update #83: AI Music Fraud and PlanSearch

The Gradient's issue 83 covers AI music streaming fraud, a new LLM search algorithm, and several AI news briefs.

Key points
  • A legally binding Council of Europe AI treaty signed by the US, EU, UK, and others is briefly noted — Australia is not mentioned.
  • Mixed-topic tech newsletter; no single item is developed in depth — low priority for focused APS reading.

Week of 2 September 2024

The Gradient – Substack(UK) 5 Sep 2024 42

Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI

Podcast interview with ARIA Programme Director Davidad Dalrymple covers provably safe AI and formal verification approaches.

Key points
  • ARIA's Safeguarded AI Programme explores formal methods and Open Agency Architecture as technical safety pathways.
  • Limited direct APS operational relevance; useful for practitioners tracking frontier AI safety research directions.

Week of 26 August 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 27 Aug 2024 38

Update #82: AI Lawsuits and SOPHON

A multi-topic AI newsletter covering copyright lawsuits, a novel misuse-prevention technique, and AI governance vignettes.

Key points
  • The SOPHON research introduces a framework to prevent pre-trained models being fine-tuned for harmful or restricted tasks.
  • Primarily US-focused content with limited direct APS relevance; useful as a broad AI landscape signal.

Week of 19 August 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Global) 22 Aug 2024 10

Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit

A podcast interview with a Stanford cognitive scientist on human use of physical representations for sensemaking.

Key points
  • AI is tangential - the lab uses AI methods but the focus is cognitive science and psychology.
  • No direct relevance to APS AI governance, strategy, or policy work.

Week of 12 August 2024

The Gradient – Substack(Other) 15 Aug 2024 10

L.M. Sacasas: The Questions Concerning Technology

A podcast interview with philosopher L.M. Sacasas on broad questions about technology and society.

Key points
  • Covers philosophical themes - human embodiment, skills outsourcing, technological determinism - not AI governance.
  • No direct relevance to Australian federal AI policy, governance, or APS practice.