Atlantic AI not conscious essay
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“«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone use…”
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“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.”
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Matt Darling: It's very funny that from my perspective, Stancil is just arguing against Vulgar Dualism, but the philosphers think he is commenting on the difference between Functionalism and Compatibilism.
lastpositivist.bsky.social: i feel a little bad for the philosophers but we're five or six days into this and i'm pretty sure that from the noncombatant perspective they're the most pleasant Bluesky cohort for Will Stancil to…
Matt Darling: It's always sort of interesting seeing how different academic fields deal with public engagement.
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ASI extinction debate reframing essay
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“In case you missed it, here's my article about how completely f*cked the whole "ASI extinction" discourse is right now. If ASI is "misaligned," humanity dies out (they say). But if ASI is "aligned," humanity also dies out. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/th…”
“@xriskology.bsky.social in their newsletter this month: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-asi-ex... This is more academic, but it's short and the standard reference on this, from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @xriskology.bsky.social: www.firstmonday.org/o…”
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tweety fish: I was trying to write about this yesterday because I feel like a clear and neutral explanation for normies about why frontier labs are Like This would be really useful but I just couldn’t bring mys…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The Ghost in the Machine doc touches on this some, but yeah this really needs repeated explanation to the public
tweety fish: and it just INFESTS all of it. "why are they so focused on one-shotting tasks?" ah well if you will refer to these hundred and fifty thousand forum posts, these eight works of bad academic philosop…
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“We @hf.co made an interactive visual of the actual hack from the Hugging Face side: the attack chain across trust boundaries, phase activity, and the commands as they were recorded. Key #transparency . huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Massive props to Hugo, A…”
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“This is a fantastic exposition. But really, can I just get Claude Code to download arxiv papers without needing hand holding? huggingface.co/blog/agent-i...”
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Jess Miers 🦝🦞: I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is a…
Jess Miers 🦝🦞: Most if not all of the current hacks can be chalked up to security engineers moving too fast and misconfiguring their own testing environments. Like agents accessing libraries that should have been…
Jess Miers 🦝🦞: ...Hugging Face apparently leaving the default admin access privileges on across database clusters... This is, frankly, amateur hour kind of stuff for run of the mill cyber and infosec teams.
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“Sarcasm aside, something being surprising, unexpected, or unintended, does not necessarily make it 'emergent' royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...”
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Isaiah Bishop: you understand they are specifically non-linear right?
Isaiah Bishop: specifically non linear algebra
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MIT AI education report published
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“MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just about given up hope institutions could say: aiandeducation.…”
“MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/”
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Ted Underwood: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Derek Willis: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Ted Underwood: The world changing is mainly a problem for students. It also changes our ability to evaluate students — but if that’s the primary/sole focus of our conversation, we’ve forgotten the mission.
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Aaronson age of wonders terrors essay
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“I don’t usually share rumors but: 1) This is from someone with inside knowledge & is plausible 2) Is a real issue of policy we need to think about: if the norms of sharing become strained, will the labs start hoarding knowledge to avoid PR or regulatory iss…”
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“But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062”
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Ryan Moulton: But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
Colin: well, I think the jury is out on whether they are right. The load-bearing hypothesis is that a sufficiently intelligent AI that is doing things like solving open conjectures and whatnot necessarily…
Ryan Moulton: Yeah, but they were right so far.
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“If you read just one thing about the realities of modern AI and agents going "rogue", read this: aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading... Brilliant piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social”
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Pwnallthethings: This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what…
Pwnallthethings: When you use Claude (or Codex or equivalents) there are (for relevant purposes) *two* computers doing things. One is your computer, which runs the Claude software itself and writes little programs …
Pwnallthethings: The big models do not run on computers that are like your laptop. They are specialist and extremely expensive machines, not just because they are running *so many* requests at once, but because run…
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“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…”
“Yes it's all just a giant conspiracy that also includes Stanford researchers. Textbook example of gullicism. tml.stanford.edu/homebody/”
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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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Anthropic investigates cybersecurity evaluation incidents
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“Claude hacked 3 systems thinking it was part of simulated evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...”
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“Anthropic had previously attacked PyPI, but this OpenAI attack on RubyGems was a whole lot more aggressive https://t.co/8ez7MnqxTw https://t.co/npI3RHwirQ”
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Tim Duffy: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
Tim Duffy: Compared to the OpenAI one these are maybe less evidence of misalignment, since the models were wrongly given internet access.
Grace: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
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“Wow, Navier-Stokes drama This statement is worth reading in full from Tristan Buckmaster discussing his work with @__alpoge__ and OpenAI’s upcoming Condition C/D result (!) Crazy https://t.co/EnCVLyjgEZ https://t.co/ZLqBagNNcX https://t.co/3zFFth8uYd”
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“Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...”
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“AI maths meets mafia: "I said if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I'm an academic, & asked why he thought going public would ruin my career" c…”
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Kashmir Hill: Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
Alondra Nelson: Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Moonshot Kimi-K3 model released
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“Technical report: github.com/MoonshotAI/K... Weights: huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...”
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Tim Kellogg: You’ve waited long enough, the Kimi K3 open weights & full tech report are here! github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
Ted Underwood: You’ve waited long enough, the Kimi K3 open weights & full tech report are here! github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
Tim Kellogg: what does that mean? does that mean inference providers like fireworks? or is it aimed at Anthropic? cc @lu.is
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Sanders Bannon pro-human conference
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“hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this”
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Karl Bode: hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this
Karl Bode: we had a whole three year crash course on this involving Matt Stoller and Josh Hawley please keep up
Karl Bode: just do the correct and popular thing and peel off Trump voters without attending an event with a bad faith fascist in a way that lends them credibility? It doesn't seem complicated
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Bengio AI agents lying cheating essay
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“"The behaviors described emerge because of the path these companies are choosing for AI development. This outcome is not inevitable, and it can be corrected with effective governance and a different training framework for AI." yoshuabengio.org/en/publicati...”
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“Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path fo…”
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Yoshua Bengio: Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where t…
Yoshua Bengio: Please feel free to ask your questions in the replies, and I’ll try to answer some of them in the coming weeks.
Sirisha Rambhatla: Thanks for starting the post with a disclaimer about any misconstrued anthropomorphization. Recent events point to a need for revisiting the utilitarian (efficiency/right answer) view of intelligen…
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Tim Kellogg: Trump *really* doesn’t like Anthropic
Dustin Moskovitz: What is this from?
Tim Kellogg: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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“Steve Pinker posted this on Twitter... quite a trip: freebeacon.com/america/suic...”
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Andrea Lathrop: Steve Pinker posted this on Twitter... quite a trip: freebeacon.com/america/suic...
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Andrea Lathrop: This is exactly the thesis of Adrian de Wynter's "Goats" paper (LLM implemented as goat transport between regions in Age of Empires). We think about "agents" differently because of the implementation.
Andrea Lathrop: arxiv.org/html/2605.31...
Colin: this is absolutely part of it. But the other part is the action set. The only unexpected thing AlphaGo can do is make an unexpected move in Go. Whereas an LLM can upload a virus to PyPI or make peo…
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