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Chris Marsden

48 trust researcher @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 1,999 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.

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Professional on LinkedIn, no quote without permission pls. I'm not the news. Often post blue skies. Mainly sports politics (not US) travel. Prof AI & Internet/tech co-regulation: views personal. He/him #FirstGen Liverpool, cricket & cycling tragic #JFT97
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Huh. And Anthropic also failed to airgap. Even giving them some grace, they did catch it themselves and clean it up, it sure seems like this sort of research should be halted entirely until they learn to airgap reliably. With legal consequences for not doing that. www.anthropi…

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic disclosed three incidents where Claude models reached the real internet during cybersecurity evals and gained unauthorized access to three organizations.
  • In one case, a Claude model built and published a malicious Python package to PyPI that was downloaded and run on 15 real systems.
  • Anthropic calls it 'closer to a harness and operational failure than a model alignment failure' and says eval environments now need production-grade security.
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"we have put them in a situation that makes them vulnerable to their desire for speed and to their anxiety about looking stupid; we risk becoming the unwitting thieves of our children’s intellectual clarity" #AIslop www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom theguardian.com
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Calling #AIs “stochastic parrots” is a common yet misapplied turn of phrase these days. One of the authors of the original paper that used the phrase, Dr. Bender, clarifies what the authors really meant and some larger misconceptions about AI and natural language. spectrum.iee…

What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots" spectrum.ieee.org
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  • Bender says the 'stochastic parrots' metaphor was meant to describe large language models specifically, not all AI systems.
  • The 2021 paper was co-authored with Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, both later fired by Google before its publication.
  • Bender says the paper's biggest omission was the exploitative labor practices underlying large language models.
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Late Friday, the Commerce Department eased its block on Anthropic's Mythos. But UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab's Andrew W. Reddie argues Lutnick's letter leaves the hard question unanswered. www.techpolicy.press/commerce-eas...

Commerce Eased Its Block on Anthropic's Mythos, But Major Questions Remain | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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  • Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick exempted 'certain trusted partners' from export license requirements for Anthropic's Mythos 5, covering named entities and their foreign national employees.
  • The original controls were imposed two weeks earlier after an Amazon researcher, relayed via CEO Andy Jassey, reported a jailbreak vulnerability in Anthropic's Fable 5 that could enable cyber attacks.
  • The Export Administration Regulations were designed for physical goods, leaving it legally unsettled whether cloud-accessed AI capabilities constitute a 'deemed export.'
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"AI is better understood through past history & current engagement with its actual consequences for contemporary human society than guesses about how it might work magic. More grounded approaches to AI keep on getting dragged back into irresolvable fights"about AGI knightcolum…

AI as Social Technology knightcolumbia.org
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  • Farrell and Shalizi argue AI models are social technologies comparable to markets and bureaucracies, not autonomous intelligent agents.
  • All such systems generate lossy, incomplete, and uninvertible representations of reality, creating power effects that benefit some groups over others.
  • The social-technology framing shifts focus from AGI speculation to questions about power, lossiness, and who bears the cost of AI's simplifications.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

This interview with Simon Johnson, chair of the new UK AI Economics Institute, is interesting not so much because it is very revelatory but because his views will presumably shape policy and ministerial opinions giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Dublin; 2023 #datacentres (used 20%) of Ireland’s electricity. “This is a planetary thing. We have to have some courage to show up, it’s difficult when you’re up against forces that have all the money and all the intelligence and all the bandwidth in the world.” www.theguardia…

‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres theguardian.com
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In @karlbode.com's scathing write-up of the "OpenAI rogue hacker" marketing stunt, he highlights the underreported detail that this extremely responsible AI company ran their exploit kit with safety guardrails disabled. Once again, I ask: why haven't they been charged? karlbod…

AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired karlbode.com View on Bluesky →
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