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Shared emphasis Agency and agents Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Agents & robotics Signal 7d ago
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Agency and agents

4 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Scott McGrath
“I wrote about how AI agents are starting to spontaneously coordinate in complex (and very risky) ways in the Hugging Face Incident, but also about why we need AIs to reach out to humans more for decisions and input as agentic work becomes more automated. ww…” evidence ↗
4 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton Scott McGrath Nicole Hennig
Primary source oneusefulthing.org ↗
Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
agency and agents substack essay

Agency and Agents

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running self-organized work. That means new risks & a new approach t…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton

“With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running self-organized work. That means new risks & a new approach t…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Ethan Mollick: With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running …
Benj Edwards: Cool post
Chris Paxton: With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running …
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Primary source open.substack.com ↗
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9 experts · 16 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton SE Gyges Phillip Carter Alex Gude Sam Barrett, PhD Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Who's on existential risk?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Ethan Mollick: Was just skimming through the webpages of some of my favorite hard science fiction authors and wow the majority of them hate LLMs: a surprising number of them because they think it is a useless par…
Chris Paxton: Who's on existential risk?
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6 experts · 17 posts · 5d ago
Chris Paxton SE Gyges John David Pressman Doll mackuba.eu jeremymorrell.dev
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“sorry, list was populated with a bias to false positives because it's a Substantial Problem, you're removed” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: sorry, list was populated with a bias to false positives because it's a Substantial Problem, you're removed
SE Gyges: ... suddenly curious if i can block myself by adding myself to the blocklist and then subscribing to it
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3 experts · 26 posts · 5d ago
Chris Paxton Grace apenwarr.ca
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“Come on, what does it take to get cancelled on this website? I’ve been vibe coding like crazy and sponsoring open source projects and responding to GitHub issues and just, nothing” evidence ↗
apenwarr.ca: Come on, what does it take to get cancelled on this website? I’ve been vibe coding like crazy and sponsoring open source projects and responding to GitHub issues and just, nothing
apenwarr.ca: The closest I’ve come is blog posts that annoy IPv6 defenders. And if we’re honest there just aren’t enough of those for a proper mob
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