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Multiple readings Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions +5 more reaction maps further down
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 11d ago
⚡ 9 h early
NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Jeffrey P. Bigham zeynep tufekci Eileen Clancy 🧿 Daniel Solove Neil Turkewitz samuel mehr +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Maybe you mean this from 2023? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... "[LLMs] are not reasoning machines. [...] It’s not just that they don’t test their outputs to make sure they’re correct or logical, or that they fail to do so in certain instances. They can’t, a…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

10 experts discussed this · 51 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Signal 2d ago
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Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
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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Primary source reuters.com ↗
New AI field signal Signal 3h ago

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Margaret Mitchell Mark Riedl Simon Willison Alondra Nelson Suresh Venkatasubramanian Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Gina Helfrich +2
3 experts discussed this · 17 posts
Simon Willison: Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up s…
Alondra Nelson: Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up s…
Grace: I think brute force is a reasonable description, in the sense that the agent tried a lot of approaches, most of which failed
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Primary source huggingface.co ↗
Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 7d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo Grace Anna Mills +10
6 experts discussed this · 11 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 ↗
Established AI research Development 16d ago
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Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Casey Fiesler Jason Koebler Rafael Pinto Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo Stephen Turner Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

“this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...”

4 experts discussed this · 34 posts
Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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Primary source insidehighered.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Signal 16d ago
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Economists ai threat jobs

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Rachel Coldicutt Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Paul Hünermund
5 experts discussed this · 29 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.co…
Rachel Coldicutt: Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
Hagen Blix: Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to he…
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 11d ago
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Ai slop books biography amazon

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 8d ago
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Amid flood ai advances astrophysicists are questioning soul their field

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Julian Togelius Eileen Clancy 🧿

“I've found it instructive watching is happening in the physical sciences with LLM-accelerated research. This passage from "The Last Astronomers" in Science resonated with me www.science.org/content/arti... (here is the arXiv article referenced: arxiv.org/ab…”

3 experts discussed this · 18 posts
Mark Riedl: I've found it instructive watching is happening in the physical sciences with LLM-accelerated research. This passage from "The Last Astronomers" in Science resonated with me www.science.org/content…
Mark Riedl: I've been struggling to put into words what I think has been broken in the field of AI for a while now. It started before AI-generated papers with the ability to use pre-trained models to do experi…
Mark Riedl: It manifests most acutely as the breakdown of peer review because of too many papers, and now AI-generated papers and AI-reviewing of papers. But these are symptoms of the breakdown of the unstated…
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Primary source science.org ↗
New AI field signal Development 16h ago
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AI companies buy old books

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Shannon Mattern Eileen Clancy 🧿 Kate Knibbs Ed Newton-Rex +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“It is ill-gotten gains being used to exploit legal loopholes and subsume culture, all protected from public criticism by NDAs. This should not be legal, and it is a travesty that it is going unpunished. www.404media.co/ai-companies... /end”

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-co…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“this ai ripoff, which again has no link, then goes to the top of hackernews, which used to drive a considerable number of readers to us. our site is essentially banned from hackernews bc the mods are obsessively pro silicon valley even though the userbase i…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Meredith Broussard: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Neil Turkewitz: How do you spell TRAGEDY?
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Models & releases Release 5d ago
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Anthropic Claude Opus 5 released

Introducing Claude Opus 5

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Nathan Lambert Chris Paxton Sung Kim Dustin Moskovitz Eileen Clancy 🧿 Nicole Hennig Cameron Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) +1
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing opportunity & adoption.
Shared emphasis

Opportunity & adoption

2 experts

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Insane numbers for opus 5, the power of faster iteration speed + scaled RL (Fable too big to RL as well, yet). And on safeguards "Based on our testing, we expect the classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5.". www.anthropic.co…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Sung Kim: Anthropic's Opus 5
Sung Kim: www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Sung Kim: System card www-cdn.anthropic.com/c5fbac3f0b12...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

6 experts · 30 posts · 11d ago
Thomas Dietterich Casey Fiesler Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Prof. Catherine Flick D. Hicks
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 4
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Jed Brown
Jed Brown: Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC coul…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC coul…
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