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New Models & releases Signal 8h ago

Openais ai us government websites

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
New Policy & governance Development 23h ago
US China AI regulation psy-op accusations

US, China Psy-Op Accusations Signal Deep Distrust on AI Regulation

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Trump says data center opposition is a Chinese psy-op. Chinese state media says US AI safety calls are a psy-op. Oxford China Policy Lab's Elisabeth Siegel says both accusations point to the same problem: no one can independently verify what AI companies cl…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d 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.

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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/”

3 experts discussed this · 6 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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Established Safety & security Development 3d 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.

12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
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)”

Policy & governance

1 expert

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...”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 6d ago
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Atlantic AI not conscious essay

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

15 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“«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…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.”

6 experts discussed this · 41 posts
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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Developing Models & releases Signal 2d ago

Large language models and emergence complex

8 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“Sarcasm aside, something being surprising, unexpected, or unintended, does not necessarily make it 'emergent' royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...”

8 experts discussed this · 62 posts
Isaiah Bishop: you understand they are specifically non-linear right?
Isaiah Bishop: lmao yes
Isaiah Bishop: specifically non linear algebra
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers

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“There is also research showing that CoT is post-hoc (the model decides and then backfills CoT arxiv.org/html/2603.01... and that CoT reasoning is different from human reasoning, increasing model size does not improve reasoning, and sometimed RLHF makes it w…”

Established Models & releases Signal 5d ago

How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?

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“There is also research showing that CoT is post-hoc (the model decides and then backfills CoT arxiv.org/html/2603.01... and that CoT reasoning is different from human reasoning, increasing model size does not improve reasoning, and sometimed RLHF makes it w…”

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3 experts · 11 posts · 3d ago
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 · 4d ago
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 · 8 posts · 5d ago
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Andrea Lathrop: Alright, so as my comprehension of Jev evolves in public... can I claim that it is just a different decoding scheme that decodes directly from the transformer layer(s)?
Andrea Lathrop: (after some post-training of the base model on a quick-decision objective, or something)
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