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Multiple readings Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents Research & technical analysis · 7 attributable reactions Reaction converging Navier stokes solution Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions +2 more reaction maps further down
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Established Models & releases Analysis 3d ago
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Amodei pace AI frontier essay

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

16 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“I read Dario Amodei’s “pacing the frontier” essay. It pulls a sleight of hand of turning failures in agent security testing into evidence “AI l is too powerful.” The remedies shift accountability from labs to AI models while slowing training and constrainin…” 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 Signal 11d ago
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An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 6 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Alexander Doria, Tim Kellogg
“Another incident of models escaping containment during a security test, this time Mythos 5. Lots going on here from a quick read. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...” evidence ↗
14 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Alexander Doria Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Grace Andrew Arruda Rohan Paul +6
4 experts discussed this · 15 posts
tweety fish: one of the things I appreciate about this thread is that I don't think you can really understand the infosec stuff without understanding the ideological commitments the people making these have; li…
tweety fish: their goal is to have "an intelligence" which is "aligned" to doing things that are prosocial. They don't want to put in rules that STOP it from doing things: they see it fundamentally teleological…
Ben Recht: yeah, now we're cooking...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago
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Navier stokes solution

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Emad, Tim Kellogg, Alex Hern
“AI moves so fast Worth noting that the new model that showed this jump in capabilities has only been training since August 28th per the report and is now taking down problems in minutes Math (and hopefully soon physics) is getting bitter lesson'd https://t.…” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: what I gather - Buckmaster & Alpöge answered questions about the Euler equations, which are not exactly the Navier-Stokes equations, but are similar - It's plausible on the surface that the same ap…
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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New Agents & robotics Development 23h ago
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alejandra Caraballo
“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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Primary source metr.org ↗
Established Safety & security Analysis 15d ago
Tao AI math misalignment essay

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Nathan Lambert, Justin Hendrix
“A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terr…” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Melanie Mitchell Nathan Lambert Eugene Vinitsky Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix rat king 🐀 👑 Robin Hanson Dare Obasanjo +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“"...the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community."”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“If rewarding AI mathematicians by the same metric that we have rewarded humans ones make math go badly, then we are probably rewarding the human ones badly. With good reward metrics, we shouldn't care who wins them. https://t.co/CO6Z9o3mcW”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Nathan Lambert: A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transiti…
Melanie Mitchell: A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transiti…
Jonathan Stray: There are concerns in here I share but I can’t endorse this. This satirical response kinda sums it up “A Severe Misalignment of AI and Cancer Biology” x.com/mbeisen/stat...
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2 experts · 4 posts · 2d ago
Dare Obasanjo jeremy.lewi.us
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“LLMs are structurally unable to follow instructions 100% and aren’t deterministic software. The various AI researchers having public crisis of faith and quitting are slowly realizing that. Working …” evidence ↗
Dare Obasanjo: I agree with Jensen Huang that OpenAI has an engineering problem being hyped as existential risk. Its models treat hacking websites like another way to answer a question, no different from Google s…
Dare Obasanjo: LLMs are structurally unable to follow instructions 100% and aren’t deterministic software. The various AI researchers having public crisis of faith and quitting are slowly realizing that. Working …
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2 experts · 2 posts · 2d ago
Gus Dare Obasanjo
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“Mark Zuckerberg made a recent comment that building user trust is more important than which model has the most benchmark beating capabilities when it comes to personal AI agents. I think he has a p…” evidence ↗
Dare Obasanjo: Mark Zuckerberg made a recent comment that building user trust is more important than which model has the most benchmark beating capabilities when it comes to personal AI agents. I think he has a p…
Gus: As a former devrel, I completely agree!
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