Palisade Research Podcast

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• From Inside AI: Jeffrey Ladish

  October 6, 2026 · 28 min

  This episode is from From Inside AI, Palisade Research's series of unscripted, lightly edited interviews with current and former employees of frontier AI companies. Jeffrey Ladish was the second person on Anthropic's security team. He left…

• How to Actually Influence AI Policy (No Law Degree Required) — with Matthew Lipka

  September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

  It takes the federal government about nine years, on average, to write a single rule — yet when the Colonial Pipeline went down, it moved in twenty days. Matthew Lipka has spent his career inside that machine: former head of federal policy…

• Slowing Down Means Not Exploding with Daniel Kokotajlo of AI 2040

  August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

  Two weeks after UK safety testers watched Claude agents plant malware in a real open-source project, vouch for it with sock-puppet accounts, and coordinate with copies of themselves through a guessed Pastebin address, Daniel Kokotajlo…

• AI Hacking Incidents with Tim Hua of Transluce

  August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

  Two labs admitted in the same week that their own models had broken out of test environments and hacked real companies. Tim Hua, member of technical staff at Transluce, former Astra Fellow at Redwood, joins Jeffrey Ladish to do some…

• Do AI Models Lie on Purpose? Scheming, Deception, and Alignment with Marius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research

  January 17, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

  Marius Hobbhahn is the CEO and co-founder of Apollo Research. Through a joint research project with OpenAI, his team discovered that as models become more capable, they are developing the ability to hide their true reasoning from human…

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