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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 Multiple readings Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Developing Models & releases Analysis 2d 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 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 ↗
Developing Safety & security Development 2d 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 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 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 Agents & robotics Development 6d ago
⚡ 62 h early
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 Culture, work & education Research 6d ago
AI labor market college majors

Graduating into Disruption: Labor Market Outcomes for AI-Exposed College Majors

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“You can read the research paper from the U.S. Census Bureau below. The reason people are worried AI will kill jobs is that it already has for entry level ones.” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“You can read the research paper from the U.S. Census Bureau below. The reason people are worried AI will kill jobs is that it already has for entry level ones.”

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2 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Dare Obasanjo jeremy.lewi.us
Matches Research & technical analysis
“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 · 1d ago
Gus Dare Obasanjo
Matches Research & technical analysis
“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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