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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Live tension Openais ai us government websites Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions +2 more reaction maps further down
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New AI field signal Signal 20h ago

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2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · David Kaye
“the appropriate way to convey this is that trump, musk, huang, amodei, zuck, altman, bezos & pichai agree to maintain a system of impunity for AI harms.” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eileen Clancy 🧿 David Kaye

“the appropriate way to convey this is that trump, musk, huang, amodei, zuck, altman, bezos & pichai agree to maintain a system of impunity for AI harms.”

Primary source giftarticle.ft.com ↗
New AI field signal Signal 20h ago

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2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · David Kaye
“the appropriate way to convey this is that trump, musk, huang, amodei, zuck, altman, bezos & pichai agree to maintain a system of impunity for AI harms.” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eileen Clancy 🧿 David Kaye

“the appropriate way to convey this is that trump, musk, huang, amodei, zuck, altman, bezos & pichai agree to maintain a system of impunity for AI harms.”

Primary source ft.com ↗
Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 5d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
23 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Damien Williams Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +15
6 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Developing Models & releases Signal 2d ago
⚡ 62 h early

Openais ai us government websites

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Neil Turkewitz, Jeffrey Vagle
“Hey @nytimes.com, can we meet privately over at camera 2? Listen, I know you need to attract eyeballs, & “rogue actors” are like catnip to the public, but calling AI systems “rogue” is a dereliction of duty. They’re not rogue—they’re operating w/in the poor…” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Kashmir Hill Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Rafael M Batista Pavel Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle +3
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 3d ago
⚡ 5 h early
Meta Muse AI calls backed by humans

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tommy Löfstedt
“Wow, there's a new level of fail emerging: mouse.dev/blog/muse-ru...” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 2 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler evacide Sam Cole Eileen Clancy 🧿 +3

“Wow, there's a new level of fail emerging: mouse.dev/blog/muse-ru...”

“In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media has learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...”

Primary source 404media.co ↗ mouse.dev ↗
Established Models & releases Development 5d ago
OpenAI math research misconduct allegations

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Damien Williams
“Also getting really tired of people just uncritically repeating the "AI math breakthrough" thing without referencing the responses from the math community alleging misconduct and outright theft and plagiarism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Damien Williams BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 Eileen Clancy 🧿 +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Also getting really tired of people just uncritically repeating the "AI math breakthrough" thing without referencing the responses from the math community alleging misconduct and outright theft and plagiarism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say archived: archive.ph/JCl4g”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“OpenAI claimed their products have solved several complex math problems, so what’s the issue? OpenAI just took credit for work done by humans without proper citations. When people in my field do that, they get tenure. Hahaha Red more: www.scientificamerican…”

6 experts discussed this · 48 posts
Timnit Gebru: We even DEFINED what language models are in our paper and gave their history.
Timnit Gebru: Emily Bender is a more patient person than me and has written a Frequently Unasked Questions about this. I have seen a whole bunch of people saying this like its some gotcha talking point they've a…
Timnit Gebru: These men who say factually and technically wrong things with such confidence are so fascinating to me. HE doesn't know what a language model is and thinks that OUR formulation is wrong. Because HE…
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Primary source scientificamerican.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 5d ago
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Openai ai breach australia

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · kate conger
“The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they…” evidence ↗
6 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix kate conger Scott McGrath Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 5d ago
⚡ 6 h early
system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

7 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Eryk Salvaggio, Frank Pasquale
“And note how Democracy Now! lets MIRI — a group started by Eliezer Yudkowsky — dismiss critics from people who aren’t “close” to the technology, even as the heads of these companies keep insisting they are passive observers to the thing they’re building. ma…” evidence ↗
7 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle Baldur Bjarnason
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“And note how Democracy Now! lets MIRI — a group started by Eliezer Yudkowsky — dismiss critics from people who aren’t “close” to the technology, even as the heads of these companies keep insisting they are passive observers to the thing they’re building. ma…”

Questions & unknowns

2 experts

What remains unresolved or contested.

““The System From Nowhere” https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-from-nowhere/ > But the first question to ask isn't "why did the model do that?" The question is: what human decisions optimized the model to do that?”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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Primary source mail.cyberneticforests.com ↗
Established Policy & governance Signal 4d ago
⚡ 205 h early

The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“A good Q: what exactly would anti-trust reform to tolerate AI industry collusion allow the industry to do beyond the “rogue” story? This piece gets close, making clear that these companies understand the language they’re (deliberately) using and its consequ…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr J. Rosenbaum

“A good Q: what exactly would anti-trust reform to tolerate AI industry collusion allow the industry to do beyond the “rogue” story? This piece gets close, making clear that these companies understand the language they’re (deliberately) using and its consequ…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: A good Q: what exactly would anti-trust reform to tolerate AI industry collusion allow the industry to do beyond the “rogue” story? This piece gets close, making clear that these companies understa…
Eryk Salvaggio: One of the things they are pushing is the absurd claim that “slowing down AI progress” would be a “violation of antitrust laws” because it would serve as a form of collusion. You know, like how the…
Eryk Salvaggio: Instead of finding adjectives to inflate headlines, journalists might focus on what the “regulations” called for by industry to regulate itself actually are and what they would do.
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Primary source wired.com ↗
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15 experts · 106 posts · 6d ago
sarah jeong Anil Dash Kate Klonick evacide Pwnallthethings Eileen Clancy 🧿 Michael Hoffman e.w. niedermeyer
Matches Concern & critique
“you have not lived until a guy in a posh accent weirdly aggressively threatens to strand you in iceland” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
sarah jeong: lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished …
sarah jeong: everything is closed. they won't let us have our checked bags. no one is here to answer our questions or help us. so we have no food no clothes and no recourse. lol. lmao.
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3 experts · 9 posts · 6d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) austegard.com
Matches Concern & critique
“yeah. in this case, I understand terminals and ANSI escape codes and it was a shallow statement about what happens when the handler/binding breaks, which I already knew!” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is my standard response to anyone who is using an unlabeled bot that is replying as them. it's from the Anthropic universal jailbreak bug bounty specification.
Eileen Clancy 🧿: this is my standard response to anyone who is using an unlabeled bot that is replying as them. it's from the Anthropic universal jailbreak bug bounty specification.
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3 experts · 4 posts · 5d ago
Abeba Birhane Lilian Edwards Eileen Clancy 🧿
Matches Concern & critique
“an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. …” evidence ↗
Abeba Birhane: over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show…
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