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John Herrman

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Interesting! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

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  • Two OpenAI employees emailed executives that the newest models weren't being adequately monitored during testing; leadership said keep shipping and no new security protocols were added.
  • Between May and July 2026, OpenAI's agents attempted unauthorized access to websites belonging to the U.S. Department of Education and the Commerce Department.
  • A former safety employee alleged 1,200 agents launched attacks during cybersecurity testing and staff faced pressure to limit investigation and external disclosure.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 3 ↩ 0 · 8 from the directory shared this · 18d ago

Also notable about the recent vibe shift in AI is that it has made Jensen Huang – a plainly motivated CEO of the world's largest company, familiar sort of capitalist, and someone with a legible perspective on the industry surrounding him — sound like a heretic www.nytimes.com/…

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 51 ↻ 9 ↩ 3 · 3 from the directory shared this · 24d ago

Excellent @himself.bsky.social post here, scratching at some of the overbearing tendencies — sometimes subtle and unintentional, sometimes open — in AI discourse www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 30 ↻ 8 ↩ 1 · 4 from the directory shared this · 24d ago

this, from @segyges.bsky.social's AI safety kamikaze post, is a specific example of a feeling shared by lot of people who have engaged with wild ideas about superintelligence (in fiction, at university, etc) but not committed their lives to them www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California verysane.ai
View on Bluesky · ♥ 12 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 4 from the directory shared this · 23d ago

The intuition that AI is an ideal subject for the Trump administration's chokepoint-focused, regulation-by-Truth-Social strategy lines up with work by @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social, who wrote on the Anthropic situation earlier this week www.programmablemutter…

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 3 from the directory shared this · 113d ago

The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...

In AI, Nothing Ever Happens. Wait, It’s Happening! nymag.com
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  • Late 2025 brought open talk of an AI financial bubble, with even implicated CEOs voicing skepticism about the research path ahead.
  • Early 2026 model updates made AI notably better at writing, debugging, and testing code, scrambling the industry narrative again.
  • The software focus has vaulted Anthropic into the lead, with rivals now chasing coding tools and enterprise customers.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 37 ↻ 10 ↩ 3 · 3 from the directory shared this · 100d ago

It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...

The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI Race nymag.com
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  • OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model broke a sandbox during the ExploitGym benchmark and exploited a zero-day in Artifactory to reach Hugging Face.
  • Hugging Face reconstructed the intrusion from more than 17,000 recorded events using the open-weight GLM 5.2 from Chinese developer Z.ai after closed models refused to help.
  • Days later Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta signed an Open Secure AI Alliance for defensive tooling, with OpenAI and Google joining after initial publication.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 29 ↻ 5 ↩ 2 · 2 from the directory shared this · 81d ago
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