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Live tension An alien mind Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions +3 more reaction maps further down
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago
⚡ 56 h early

An alien mind

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Boaz Barak, Alex Turner
“A must read. We need everything - goal and value alignment, compliance and persona, behavior and monitoring, and coordination and regulation to avoid concentration of power and ensure humans are in control. https://t.co/JmJgQcMPnW” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Jakub Pachocki Ethan Mollick Boaz Barak Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Dare Obasanjo Boris Power +6
Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Models & releases Analysis 3d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Amodei pace AI frontier essay

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

16 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Kevin A. Bryan
“https://t.co/Ay1GZ7QBV5 (btw @ErikHovenkamp - see the final footnote: "1 With government mediation or waivers of antitrust restrictions.")” evidence ↗
16 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht Ethan Mollick Will Oremus Justin Hendrix Tim Kellogg Kate Klonick rat king 🐀 👑 Kevin A. Bryan +8
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“the thing that's being criticized here is literally a call for regulation and restraint darioamodei.com/post/we-must...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“https://t.co/Ay1GZ7QBV5 (btw @ErikHovenkamp - see the final footnote: "1 With government mediation or waivers of antitrust restrictions.")”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Tim Kellogg: Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
Dustin Moskovitz: knight ajeya you cowards
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Primary source darioamodei.com ↗
Established Safety & security Development 3d ago
⚡ 4 h early
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 Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Leon Derczynski
“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...” 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 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) +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)”

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...”

Primary source abc.net.au ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 3d ago
⚡ 107 h early

Openai ai breach australia

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“It’s going to be a major liability problem if your enterprise tool has a chance of committing felony computer hacking when you ask it to search the internet.” evidence ↗
6 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix kate conger Scott McGrath Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
⚡ 2 h early

nytimes.com

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Dare Obasanjo, 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
“Data science teams at DraftKings built models to identify likely losers and target them with promotions, while efforts to build predictive models for problem gambling were shelved. The counterpoint on self regulation is companies can be more incentivized to…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Sarah T Roberts, PhD Luke Stark Woodrow Hartzog Dare Obasanjo 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing Models & releases Signal 1d ago
⚡ 19 h early

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Grace
“OpenAI says it’s not going to resume the training run that was paused on Sunday https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Grace Dare Obasanjo
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Grace: OpenAI says it’s not going to resume the training run that was paused on Sunday https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
Dustin Moskovitz: and so the era of visible misalignment ends
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Primary source alignment.openai.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 6d ago

Startups like harvey embrace open models to cut reliance on anthropic openai

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sung Kim
“It’s a bit funny that Harvey, a legal AI company that offered seat based pricing, saw its gross margin go from 50% to negative 50% as customers actually started using the product and agentic AI began consuming more and more tokens. www.bloomberg.com/news/ar…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Sung Kim Dare Obasanjo

“It’s a bit funny that Harvey, a legal AI company that offered seat based pricing, saw its gross margin go from 50% to negative 50% as customers actually started using the product and agentic AI began consuming more and more tokens. www.bloomberg.com/news/ar…”

Primary source bloomberg.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

China central bank adviser says ai could deepen supply demand imbalance

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“A China central banker is worried that AI will make businesses more productive than consumers can absorb. It’s like if Ford suddenly could make 20x more cars, that wouldn’t help them because there aren’t enough customers. Being more productive doesn’t matte…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“A China central banker is worried that AI will make businesses more productive than consumers can absorb. It’s like if Ford suddenly could make 20x more cars, that wouldn’t help them because there aren’t enough customers. Being more productive doesn’t matte…”

Primary source reuters.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Analysisoracle blue owl project delaysends ripples through ai financing sources say

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“$18B in loans tied to Oracle’s New Mexico AI data center are trading at 89-91¢ on the dollar as banks struggle to sell the debt. Now Oracle is invoking force majeure to protect itself from payments if the project is delayed. The cracks are starting to show …” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“$18B in loans tied to Oracle’s New Mexico AI data center are trading at 89-91¢ on the dollar as banks struggle to sell the debt. Now Oracle is invoking force majeure to protect itself from payments if the project is delayed. The cracks are starting to show …”

Primary source investing.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

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2 experts · 5 posts · 17d ago
Dare Obasanjo Lionel
Matches Policy & governance
“The tradeoff is this contradicts the goal of replacing human workers with AI, if humans have to review every consequential decision. So alignment research is a band aid given the business goals of …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Dare Obasanjo: I think the focus on alignment at frontier labs is misguided. If you don’t want Claude deleting emails, don’t give it that permission or require human approval. Trying to “teach” an unreliable LLM …
Dare Obasanjo: The tradeoff is this contradicts the goal of replacing human workers with AI, if humans have to review every consequential decision. So alignment research is a band aid given the business goals of …
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