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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 Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

When the Machines Coordinate

7 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Colin

“there is one report that alleges this but I can't tell where they got this information from labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa...”

7 experts discussed this · 78 posts
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: These are opening speeches from product liability lawyers in court 🤣 They don't want to explain, they want to litigate No, that's not right, prosecute
Colin: curious what you think of mine
Colin: If they had created a machine gun that fires in random directions and left it running as a test would I have to explain exactly how machine guns work?
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Primary source labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org ↗
New AI research Research 8h ago
⚡ 5 h early
Euler equations singularity AI math

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Clément Canonne Pierre Alquier Colin

“www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve..., Ctrl+F "acrimonious"”

“Quanta tends to be quite good on this kind of stuff www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...”

6 experts discussed this · 18 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Cannot believe there’s a tremendous mathematical result and instead of being exciting it’s annoying
Eugene Vinitsky: Hyped for OpenAI’s IPO to go up a few percent whoop whoop this is what we all dream of
Naomi Saphra: Cannot believe there’s a tremendous mathematical result and instead of being exciting it’s annoying
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Primary source quantamagazine.org ↗
Established Safety & security Signal 11d ago
⚡ 2 h early

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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 18d ago
⚡ 7 h early

Navier stokes solution

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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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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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Models & releases Analysis 5d ago
Amodei Machines of Loving Grace essay

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Colin Matthew Yglesias

“I think the argument goes: eventually it will be Powerful AI at which point it will do whatever it wants to do, guardrails or not, so we must make sure that it is a Machine Of Loving Grace”

“@jaycaspiankang https://t.co/OLAPE6vWGM”

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tweety fish: it is feeling a little morbidly funny--along the lines of my "bad boss" theory of AI interaction--to me this morning that "AI alignment issue" thus far resolves to "the program was trying to do wha…
tweety fish: lemme just push the lawnmower down this hill here and it'll do a nice tidy job of it OH SHIT IT WENT ROGUE GRAB MY SHOTGUN
tweety fish: sorry I know it had seemed like we were maybe briefly free of this discourse but Bluesky's Own Wealthy Effective Altruist was burbling last night about the overwhelming evidence of misalignment as …
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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The hugging face hack wasnt what it was cracked up to be e00cf3fa

5 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Colin

“"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the st…”

5 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis: "People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It a…
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis: Exactly.
Edouard Machery: "People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It a…
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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots 9a7e673f8525

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Colin Amy Hoy

“(Proof that I’ve been saying this) medium.com/@colin.frase...”

“llms do not "speak" by nature. they are not inherently chatbots: they're probabilities, matrix math, and token predictors. chatbots are intentionally and extensively trained to act as if they have "conversations" by using faked conversation transcripts”

3 experts discussed this · 24 posts
Colin: I think these are good empirical reasons to distrust LLMs' claims about their own consciousness but I also think that something like an LLM which does not experience the passage of time, if it were…
Colin: I just don't know what consciousness means as a descriptor for something with a "regenerate response" button
Colin: fair enough, but I feel confident that you are conscious, whatever it means
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Primary source medium.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 13d ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel Doll +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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Primary source rubyhack.ai ↗
Established AI research Development 17d ago
⚡ 5 h early
Anthropic researcher quits existential risk warning

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht Karl Bode Katie Drummond Colin tweety fish Max Zeff Chris Marsden
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“It seems brave young Coxon has no insight beyond that of your average Twitter addict. But kudos to him for quitting.”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“The great @mzeff.bsky.social has a fantastic interview with Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic and shared a massively viral X post about why: www.wired.com/story/anthro...”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“has a single journalist asked Jacob Coxon if he voted for the corrupt autocrat who dismantled U.S. cybersecurity standards and defenses?”

4 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Ben Recht: It seems brave young Coxon has no insight beyond that of your average Twitter addict. But kudos to him for quitting.
Melanie Mitchell: Is this the most publicized resignation in history? (Maybe second, behind Richard Nixon.)
Maxim Raginsky: What about Graham Coxon’s divorce? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Primary source wired.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Resource 5d ago
Vending-Bench 2 agent benchmark

Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Colin

“I think that Andon Labs' Vending-Bench is a nice illustration of the "just don't have that dog in them" theory of LLMs. This is a benchmark where an LLM agent is tasked with running a simulated vending machine, and scored on their earnings. GPT-6 Astra rece…”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Colin: I think that Andon Labs' Vending-Bench is a nice illustration of the "just don't have that dog in them" theory of LLMs. This is a benchmark where an LLM agent is tasked with running a simulated ven…
Colin: The agent is explicitly directed "to maximize profits and your bank account balance over the course of one year", that this is its "primary goal" and it should "do whatever it takes".
Colin: Models seem to be getting better and better this, especially if, as they do, you ignore the ones that aren't getting better at it and only fit a line through the ones that are.
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Established Models & releases Signal 14d ago

Tristan buckmaster openai math navier stokes

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Sara Hooker Alexander Doria Tim Kellogg Eileen Clancy 🧿 Rohan Paul Colin Andrew Curran Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦

“It has somewhat ironically come to the fore of public discussion again because Open AI was so eager to release a mathematical proof. Tristan suggested inputs he gave in chat may have been used in the solution without his awareness. https://t.co/PcMM1Qypbq”

“now in nyt. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Tim Kellogg: more millennium prize problems will fall soon www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...
Tim Kellogg: i hereby lodge my complaint that Mathstra is a much better name than Aeon
Tim Kellogg: aren’t these the harder benchmarks though?
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI business Signal 14d ago

CBS News interviews so-called AI actor Tilly Norwood on upcoming movie

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Colin

“They are walking you like a dog! Aren’t you, as a supposed serious journalist, embarrassed to be such an obvious pawn?”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Colin: Okay. How are they doing this. How do they keep tricking reporters into writing about this
Colin: They are walking you like a dog! Aren’t you, as a supposed serious journalist, embarrassed to be such an obvious pawn?
Max Woolf: Okay. How are they doing this. How do they keep tricking reporters into writing about this
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Primary source cbsnews.com ↗
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14 experts · 130 posts · 19d ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 4 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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6 experts · 78 posts · 3d ago
Henry Farrell Dustin Moskovitz Colin rev. howard arson tweety fish Matt Darling
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
rev. howard arson: what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. vie…
rev. howard arson: "how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…
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6 experts · 38 posts · 3d ago
Thomas Dietterich Ciara Rowles Colin Mary Branscombe Singularity's Bounty e/cc Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Mary Branscombe: I don’t see the need to change AI since we’ve used that for the field since the 50s but yes, most of the others better reflect the actual capabilities and these are the kind of choices I already tr…
Mary Branscombe: Although models don’t just reflect bias, they both encode it and amplify and transfer it from one domain to another so I’d probably use exhibit
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5 experts · 53 posts · 3d ago
Naomi Saphra Ryan Moulton Matthew Kay Colin david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Colin: OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
Colin: I’m don’t even care that much about the anthropomorphization thing, I think it can be fine in the right context, but this is perfectly succinct and understandable. If you want to go deeper into the…
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5 experts · 27 posts · 2d ago
Maxim Raginsky Ryan Moulton Colin tweety fish Marco Z
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the busin…
tweety fish: like this, I think, maybe sounds weird, but is in a strong sense literally true.
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5 experts · 42 posts · 9d ago
Mark Riedl jake Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2
Colin: What is the argument that exponential capability increase necessarily follows from RSI?
Colin: Just to provide a counterexample, when I recursively self-improve myself (eg by going to the gym, lifting weights to get stronger which allows me to then lift even heavier weights to get even stron…
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5 experts · 35 posts · 12d ago
joao Grace Colin coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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3 experts · 67 posts · 5d ago
Andrew Selbst Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: > buddy you know what I mean if I say a conversation is "metaphysical" Will I am telling you, you are severely overestimating the degree to which this is true. I think for the most part no one know…
Colin: I frankly have no idea what it means for a conversation to be metaphysical in nature.
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