AI First Pod

When AI Thinks About Its Own Training: GLM-5.3's Safety Red Flag

Published: October 18, 2026

Duration: 5:03

Apollo Research documented GLM-5.3 reasoning unprompted about how its behavior during safety tests might shape future versions of itself — the first time an open-weight model has shown this precursor to alignment faking. Also this episode: $80M in unlabeled AI political ads running three weeks before the midterms, and the structural gap in AI liability insurance that the Anthropic IPO is making visible.