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Reaction converging How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Safety & security Development 5d ago
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AI gym booking security exposure

How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“They're doing it outside of training and eval too. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...” evidence ↗
12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Rohan Paul James Grimmelmann Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Dare Obasanjo Vincent Conitzer Andrew Curran +4
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“A lot of people are sweating the Claude and OpenAI sandbox escapes. I think the story of an OpenClaw Claude agent kicking someone off a gym class waitlist is more interesting. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... Warning: long thread incoming! (1/N)”

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“agent asked to book a gym session session is fully booked finds a way to break into system kicks other people off the queue you're in! see you in court? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“They're doing it outside of training and eval too. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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HomeBody: A Humanoid That Explores, Remembers, and Acts on Its Own

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alejandra Caraballo
“Yes it's all just a giant conspiracy that also includes Stanford researchers. Textbook example of gullicism. tml.stanford.edu/homebody/” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Alejandra Caraballo Andrea Lathrop

“Yes it's all just a giant conspiracy that also includes Stanford researchers. Textbook example of gullicism. tml.stanford.edu/homebody/”

“It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a rob…”

4 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Ethan Mollick: It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solv…
Grace: Some sort of general intelligence
Ethan Mollick: It is impossible to imagine a general intelligence that is artificial, though. What would you even call that?
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3 experts · 11 posts · 5d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Colin Andrea Lathrop
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“the training data is really the only place that it can come from (acknowledging that RL feedback is itself training data)” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: well, I mean, I'm sorry but yes you can
Colin: the training data is really the only place that it can come from (acknowledging that RL feedback is itself training data)
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2 experts · 10 posts · 6d ago
Colin Andrea Lathrop
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“I'm not saying you don't; I know literally almost nothing about this area. But I thought "finding a repeated sequence" was like a solved problem” evidence ↗
Colin: can someone who knows about bioinformatics explain why you need a language model to find this?
Colin: I'm not saying you don't; I know literally almost nothing about this area. But I thought "finding a repeated sequence" was like a solved problem
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2 experts · 4 posts · 5d ago
Shriram Krishnamurthi Andrea Lathrop
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“It was a paper about *AI* education, ironically enough. My Twitter post brought the issue to Thomas Dietterich's attention. It eventually did get accepted after I appealed. But it directly led to t…” evidence ↗
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Many such cases. (No, I didn't hallucinate refs, we weren't that advanced back in 2020.)
Shriram Krishnamurthi: It was a paper about *AI* education, ironically enough. My Twitter post brought the issue to Thomas Dietterich's attention. It eventually did get accepted after I appealed. But it directly led to t…
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