What AI Overview would never do
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“Not the best display of self-awareness / situational awareness. aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-ov...”
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What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.
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2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“Not the best display of self-awareness / situational awareness. aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-ov...”
9 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“We are going to find more evidence of this as we start to look for it: Over 15k edits on a German wiki were traced back to rogue OpenAI agents this spring. Instead of running test evals in isolation, the agents hijacked the site as a shared message board to…”
What remains unresolved or contested.
“We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack www.reuters.com/world/europ…”
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“When I was at Google DeepMind and trying to think clearly about AI risk, I had to notice—at least privately—when Google was doing something irresponsible. I hope OpenAI employees can notice—at least privately—this is irresponsible. This is disturbing and no…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“Maybe it has some degree of self-awareness? (to be continued...) aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“At the DMV, rules are rules. aifails.substack.com/p/martian-in...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“I think it trained on too many division-by-zero “proofs”... aifails.substack.com/p/mathematic...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“Never underestimate air resistance. aifails.substack.com/p/bouncy-bal...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“Accessible article on AI hacking (with quotes from a few of us). If you want to go deeper read the linked METR report. politifact.com/article/2026...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“"Respectively" is a tricky word. aifails.substack.com/p/engine-oil...”