AI agent government liability essay
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“@danielstone.bsky.social proposes making disclosure a legal duty, and that firms such as OpenAI must hand affected organizations the logs and let them recover costs. Because, as he puts it, "No one should need a prime minister to get an answer."”
“Daniel Stone examines the OpenAI agent incident in Australia: "84 days, almost three months, from the first access to the warning being raised." He calls for enforceable rules, prompt notice, access to logs and a way to recover costs.”
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“I tried to get America.gov to say what model it is. So far, no luck. It is very happy to keep telling me about Joe Gebbia, and the National Design Studio, and repeatedly asserting it is there to help fill out government forms, and listing things it will be …”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“It's a mix of 1.) Sort of minor but ~fine stuff (America.gov, new envelopes) 2.) Cool stuff that is plausibly vaporware (one stop shop for social benefits, faster passport applications and processing)”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“This week, we learned the new America.gov runs on xAI & Google Gemini. I wonder if public AI bots on .gov will need to consult multiple models to be more trusted in the years ahead.”
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Julian Sanchez: Ok wow. This is both extensive and deeply surreal. Tell America.gov to Play Minecraft.
Julian Sanchez: Amusingly, the chatbot appears to be unable to recognize that it said anything weird. It “thinks” it just responded that it can’t play minecraft.
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Russia AI law prioritizes control
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Russia's new AI law borrows the vocabulary of contemporary AI regulation but uses it to combine industrial policy with technological control, write Dmitry Kuteynikov and Lyubov Popovets.”
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“I only know the basics about flow matching/diffusion, but this is really nice! Moore, Escher, Penrose: A Conformal Golden Braid arxiv.org/abs/2610.02210”
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“But LLMs are, to this day, still well enough understood as stochastic parrots. It's an accurate description of the technology. Many AI models involve more than LLMs, as fellow co-author Margaret Mitchell pointed out, but it's *still* a useful critical frame…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“I reposted this, but tacking itonto this thread as well bc I think it's useful context. Margaret was also a co-author of the Stochastic Parrots paper and recently offered some thoughts on which parts of the analogy hold up (and which have been widely misund…”
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Will Oremus: feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying…
Will Oremus: you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than ju…
Will Oremus: or if it is parroting, it's stretching the bounds of your conventional understanding of that term so far as to render it misleading. parrots cannot solve complex problems, self-interrogate and self…
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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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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“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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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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ChatGPT Mac app data exposure flaw
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““AI companies are fixated on adding features right now…But as always, the more features, the broader the attack surface. So all of these companies need to be fully focused on security, and from what I can see, it still often seems like an afterthought.””
Whittaker AI art poets interview
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“Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...”
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Eliza AI play theater review
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“Review of the play about Weizenbaum and the creation of Eliza.”
Canada launches National AI Council
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“Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY”
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Gillian Hadfield: Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY
Rafael M Batista: Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social for asking me to join his new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, which will advise on Canada’s AI for All strategy. buff.ly/cNVtSiY
Rafael M Batista: Congrats, Gillian! Lucky for @mark-carney.bsky.social
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7h ago
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““At some point, maybe we should listen to the words of Meta’s founder who, years ago, bragging about how people just hand over their information to him, revealed what he thinks about those who do so: ‘[d]umb f—s.’””
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Audible AI book character chat feature
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““Users will soon be able to engage, for instance, with Count Dracula’s rat-eating manservant, Renfield, through a new interactive story.””
“Woody Allen wrote a short story in which a dude invented this tech... it didn't end well.”
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Percepta Spotlight Memory tool launch
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“Another new, exciting architecture from my colleagues at Percepta: www.percepta.ai/blog/spotlig...”
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Eugene Vinitsky: Another new, exciting architecture from my colleagues at Percepta: www.percepta.ai/blog/spotlig...
Eugene Vinitsky: It's funny because this is actually much more exciting than "LLM as computer" but somehow is going to get much less visibility
tweety fish: I was wondering recently why more people didn’t do clever things with sparsity in compaction, interested to read about this
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AI local laws database built
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“Canada's "AI for All" asks us to trust Bengio's lawzero.org/en, but scroll down for the donors and backers (Nvidia; Musk's Future of Life institute; Gates; Schmidt etc) and you have a classic case of the fox guarding the chicken coop.”
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“There is really interesting stuff on this emerging on both sides (& same authors!) in persuasion psych academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... arxiv.org/abs/2601.05050”
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“A groundbreaking study at PSB 2027 reveals OpenMTB-Audit, enhancing molecular tumor board safety by reducing over-refusal rates in AI recommendations for non-small cell lung cancer, stressing the need to preserve meaningful distinctions in treatment options…”
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“Wenyi Wu, Minghao Fu, Jieyu You, Kun Zhou, Siqi Liu, Aayush Salvi, Yiheng Lin, Ce Zhang, Xiaohan Lan, Jiahui Zhu, Yujie Zhong, Qi She, Biwei Huang RSIGame: Autonomous Agentic Game Development with Recursive Self-improvement https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39045”
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“Xinkai Chen Structure vs. Chain-of-Thought: Evaluating LLM Criteria Extraction for Depression Severity https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39049”
