Editorial inputs

Sources, not vibes.

SUMO deliberately monitors competing schools of thought: rapid capability and deployment, catastrophic-risk and precautionary arguments, sceptical “normal technology” views, open-source perspectives, research, industry, policy, labour and social impact. Actual sources used are listed in every episode’s notes.

How SUMO is made: ChatGPT helps find and process sources, compare claims, synthesise the material and draft each episode. Exact inputs are published below when each episode reaches the public feed. Free weeklies arrive on Wednesday; subscribers receive them on Saturday through their personal feed.

The lens beside a source is a curation aid, not a claim that every item from that source holds one ideology. SUMO aims for evidence-weighted fairness rather than artificial 50/50 balance.

Episode notes

Sources used in each edition

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August 2026

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26 September 2026

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12 September 2026

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29 August 2026

Listening

Podcasts

Long-form conversations and technical discussion, deliberately spanning optimistic, accelerationist, safety-focused and independent perspectives. Show notes are treated cautiously when full transcripts are unavailable.

  • Dwarkesh Podcast · capability & acceleration
  • Latent Space · capability & acceleration
  • No Priors · capability & acceleration
  • The AI Daily Brief · capability & acceleration
  • The Cognitive Revolution · research
  • Practical AI · general coverage
  • Machine Learning Street Talk · open source
  • The Gradient Podcast · research
  • Eye On AI · general coverage
  • Interconnects · open source
  • Hard Fork · general coverage
  • Future of Life Institute Podcast · safety & catastrophic risk
  • AI Safety Newsletter · safety & catastrophic risk
Evidence

Primary & research

Lab announcements, independent research institutions, academic work and engineering sources. Organisational claims are attributed rather than treated as independent proof.

Context

Expert & editorial

Independent analysis, advocacy, policy work and established reporting used for interpretation, challenge, disagreement and corroboration.

Discovery only

Trend signals

These can indicate what is attracting attention, but SUMO does not use them as the sole support for a factual claim.