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Reaction converging Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 2d ago
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Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

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Casey Newton Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Shannon Mattern Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 +6
3 experts discussed this · 38 posts
Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
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Developing Models & releases Signal 1d ago
⚡ 18 h early

The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI Race

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Casey Newton John Herrman

“It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...”

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John Herrman: It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...
John Herrman: I also think it's interesting — and generally good! — that, as capability improves, people are becoming less inclined to live in Anthropicoid awe of AI. If the curve is going to kill us, we're alre…
John Herrman: I don't quite disagree with Casey here, but I would like to leave space for the argument that being "obsessed with the definitions of terms" is necessary for attempting to think clearly about AI. I…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
case for personal apps essay

The case for making your own apps

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Casey Newton

“Talked to Raycast/Glaze founder Thomas Paul Mann about why soon half the apps on your computer might be ones you made yourself — and what that means for jobs www.platformer.news/glaze-raycas...”

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Casey Newton: Talked to Raycast/Glaze founder Thomas Paul Mann about why soon half the apps on your computer might be ones you made yourself — and what that means for jobs www.platformer.news/glaze-raycas...
Nathan Schneider: Really timely conversation for me, thank you—I was just writing about my latest toy apps in light of my colleague August Black's idea of "boutique permasoftware": nathanschneider.info/2026/07/what.…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Maria Antoniak Casey Newton Mary Branscombe
Casey Newton: We have now reached the "AI models escaping their test environments to conduct autonomous cyberattacks" part of the story
Mary Branscombe: I came to the conclusion a while back that while this is relentless automation rather than sinister consciousness, we’re still going to need to make sure governance is external to model execution e…
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