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Meta Muse surveillance critique
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy …”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“A bit from me in @wired.com today wrt our research on AI agents with @evijit.io and Samir Passi. This is a really detailed article, thanks for writing it @thiccreese.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/metas-...”
Accelerating
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Signal
8h ago
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“OpenAI "has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics," and is waiting to release them until after discussions with the math community The same thing will likely happen, but more so, with the Bar, the AMA & othe…”
“Mathstra (OpenAI) has solved 100 open problems across most branches of math in the last 3 weeks openai.com/index/adviso...”
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Isaiah Bishop: you understand they are specifically non-linear right?
Isaiah Bishop: specifically non linear algebra
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1h ago
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AI road less traveled post
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“like what you see? like, comment and subscribe go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE”
“A very good starter pack to stay on top of AI, by @timkellogg.me go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE”
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Doll: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Tim Kellogg: added also go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE
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Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 model release
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“Xiaomi Mimo-v2.6 Pro & Flash Nails the agent benchmarks alongside Sol & Fable, but from a relatively unknown lab. 524B / 159B respectively Open weights. Image, Video & Audio mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6”
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Sung Kim: Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 — Pro & Flash 🔹 Two omnimodal models, advancing through scaled reinforcement learning 🔹 Stronger coding, computer use, 3D reasoning and creative capabilities 🔹 Open model weights, …
Sung Kim: mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
Gus: Were these models that the training evals were open whine training?
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Napster AI teacher cloning launch
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Many out there want to treat AI in education seriously. Then there's this from *Napster*. "Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a 'copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.'” w…”
Questions & unknowns
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“Really odd repackaging. Will parents who spent time in their dorm rooms downloading music with Napster want it now to clone teachers? That seems like a hard sell.”
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Hypervisible : Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Hypervisible : “Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a ‘copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.’” 💀
Charles Logan: Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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global workspace theory language models paper
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Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”
Building & implementation
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“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“He was *literally involved in the global workspace paper that you refuse to read or take seriously*: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”
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Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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“"An April survey of 1,150 office workers found that 40 percent had encountered a phenomenon known as “workslop,” or AI-generated content that looks professional on the surface but lacks any actual substance." futurism.com/artificial-i...”
“Everyone is getting the world they wanted futurism.com/artificial-i...”
Atlantic AI not conscious essay
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone use…”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.”
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Matt Darling: It's very funny that from my perspective, Stancil is just arguing against Vulgar Dualism, but the philosphers think he is commenting on the difference between Functionalism and Compatibilism.
lastpositivist.bsky.social: i feel a little bad for the philosophers but we're five or six days into this and i'm pretty sure that from the noncombatant perspective they're the most pleasant Bluesky cohort for Will Stancil to…
Matt Darling: It's always sort of interesting seeing how different academic fields deal with public engagement.
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”
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Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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11h ago
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“Some Dartmouth context for our provost alleged to have used AI extensively in his academic & public writing. Also worth noting that our administration has invested heavily in AI, without faculty consultation. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...”
“this piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about what his students have said about AI, why they're using it, and what they think about it. "Nobody used the term “arms race,” but that’s what they described: enormous pressure to use AI or fall behind those who ar…”
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Jeff Sharlet: I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote…
Shannon Mattern: I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Over half of Gen Z uses AI daily or weekly, so I guess you have an unusually AI-hating class. 🤷♀️ And the article remains true, just the same as teaching people to weave for a job when machine loo…
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New
AI field signal
Signal
11h ago
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“THESE are the real "existential risks" of "AI": People almost Dying because other people trust bullshit engines because said people have been sold a bill of goods as to how "powerful" "AI" is instead of understanding that its bullshit comes from the same pl…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“The Anthropic v DoD/DoW case is coming up soon in my AI & the Law class. So, it seemed fitting that today in class I got to point my students to recent reporting about how an AI hallucination “almost” started WWIII.”
New
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Analysis
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Reify This ideas letter essay
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“Reify This! www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”
“This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March “Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”
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Ben Recht: In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
Ben Recht: I still can't get over the hero image. Priceless.
Hagen Blix: "If you ask interpretability or alignment researchers how that might come about, you will receive hours-long, mind-numbing lectures about the long-term future of humanity cast in some of the most i…
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UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“The UN General Assembly is meeting this week to discuss AI, among other issues. Worth remembering that the UN’s definition of AI has contributed to the erosion of human accountability in policy frames. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-...”
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Joanna Bryson: Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the…
Joanna Bryson: This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2
Eryk Salvaggio: Apologies! I hadn’t seen this excellent 2022 accounting of the process when I was reviewing for this — my analysis’ “lit review” was more mired in the source docs. Yours is an excellent accounting …
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3h ago
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“Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs. The alarm sounded by AI chief executives about the very products they have raced to market amounts to a remarkable admission of failure and a spectacular failure of governance. ↘️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...”
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3h ago
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“Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs. The alarm sounded by AI chief executives about the very products they have raced to market amounts to a remarkable admission of failure and a spectacular failure of governance. ↘️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...”
against AI campus higher ed essay
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“Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed Oct 23 > Employers and legislators are pushing Ed Tech and Artificial Intelligence through universities and colleges across the USA. Organized labor needs a comprehensive response Read more and sign up: www…”
Finnish president frontier AI control call
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Very encouraged to see so many countries coming together to call for mandatory pre-deployment testing & independent evaluation; global coordination on common standards; the creation of an intergovernmental organization; and other critical actions to mitigat…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“I love to see this 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: twenty-two leaders have called for frontier AI models to remain under human direction, oversight and control. www.presidentti.fi/en/a-call-fo...”
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“Amazon bans Meta’s Muse assistant from being able to access the Amazon store www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-...”
“the future is going to look a lot like the past as in, endless gamesmanship as giant corporations attempt to ratfuck each other”
