Part I: The event (Anthropic's announcement 👇). Best I can tell: researchers (apparently at Amazon) jailbroke Fable for possible cyberattacks. Someone (apparently Andy Jassy) told the WH. A back-and-forth followed — Anthropic said not serious, the WH disagreed. www.anthropic.c…
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Director of the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | OpenAI openai.com
AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog blog.neurips.cc
Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security whitehouse.gov
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Anthropic's Mythos Recall and the White House's Missing AI Safety Playbook techpolicy.press
What Fits (Into Few Tokens) Doesn't Overfit: Compression and Generalization in ML Research Agents arxiv.org
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AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable theguardian.com
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The Fair Lending Model: How the Longest-Running Algorithmic Fairness Programs Work in Practice arxiv.org
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Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X bloomberg.com
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OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT has disproved a conjecture about one of Erdos's most famous problems: the unit distance problem. openai.com/index/model-... This problem is personal to me: I spent time during my Ph.D mulling over it, and it hooked me into computational geome…
Almost 30% of the submissions to the Neurips position paper track were deemed to be ai generated or heavily ai-implicated. blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4%) via Pangram; 123 more must prove human authorship by June 15, 2026.
- Default Pangram window sizes flagged 42.7% of submissions; refined 100-word windows reduced that rate to 12.7%.
- Comparison venues FAccT 2025 and NeurIPS E&D 2026 showed 0% and 2.1% maximum AI scores respectively.
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Sound familiar? It's basically how cybersecurity already works with no govt — and partly how the recent WH executive order was built (warts and all). There IS a way: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It's really impressive that an AI system has provided a proof for it. For more on the significance of the result and some interpretation of the proof technique, check out the companion article. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085... 10/n,n=10
The WH invoked export controls — block Fable/Mythos for all foreign nationals anywhere. Anthropic blocked everything, saying it couldn't tell who's who. Background from @justinhendrix.bsky.social at @techpolicypress.bsky.social 👇 www.techpolicy.press/anthropics-m...
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Modern LLMs are incredibly good compression algorithms, which can shed light on why autonomous data science agents don't overfit as much as you might think. arxiv.org/abs/2606.11045
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It’s not inevitable! As I say here, “[T]here can be alternatives … rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” And I think it’s honestly coming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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🧵 How do companies in highly regulated domains actually test their AI systems for and mitigate discrimination? Our new @upturn.org paper at @facct.bsky.social w/ Emily Black, @mbogen.bsky.social, @s010n.bsky.social, and @wesleydeng.bsky.social, tries to answer this question: a…
Hard to square that reaction with the total silence when Grok was churning out CSAM & nonconsensual deepfakes on demand — while also being used inside the DoD. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... For more on the admin's incoherence, see Justin Hendrix's analysis (linked above).
Hard to square that reaction with the total silence when Grok was churning out CSAM & nonconsensual deepfakes on demand — while also being used inside the DoD. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... For more on the admin's incoherence, see Justin Hendrix's analysis (linked above).
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I feel I'm being lowkey trolled when a company puts out a chatbot that is known for hallucinations/confabulations and calls it .... Fable
I'm back at SoCG (the conference where I started my research career) after what feels like eons. It feels like going back to a college reunion where everyone else has been going regularly except me. It's also so nice to sit through talk sessions with more theorems and less AI.
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