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Multiple readings A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Governor Newsom issues executive order to accelerate independent oversight and advance the creation of an AI kill switch | Governor of California Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Safety & security Analysis 16d ago
Tao AI math misalignment essay

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Robin Hanson
“If rewarding AI mathematicians by the same metric that we have rewarded humans ones make math go badly, then we are probably rewarding the human ones badly. With good reward metrics, we shouldn't care who wins them. https://t.co/CO6Z9o3mcW” evidence ↗
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Melanie Mitchell Nathan Lambert Eugene Vinitsky Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Robin Hanson rat king 🐀 👑 Dare Obasanjo +3
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“"...the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community."”

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“If rewarding AI mathematicians by the same metric that we have rewarded humans ones make math go badly, then we are probably rewarding the human ones badly. With good reward metrics, we shouldn't care who wins them. https://t.co/CO6Z9o3mcW”

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Nathan Lambert: A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transiti…
Melanie Mitchell: A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transiti…
Jonathan Stray: There are concerns in here I share but I can’t endorse this. This satirical response kinda sums it up “A Severe Misalignment of AI and Cancer Biology” x.com/mbeisen/stat...
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Established Policy & governance Development 10d ago
Newsom California AI kill switch executive order

Governor Newsom issues executive order to accelerate independent oversight and advance the creation of an AI kill switch | Governor of California

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · James MacGlashan
“A "kill switch." Not accountability for the corporations. A "kill switch" for AI. This is what regulation looks like when you let SV billionaires and the "rationalists" control the narrative on AI risks. Enough already. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/18/g...” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Marietje Schaake James MacGlashan David Kaye Dan Hon
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“A "kill switch." Not accountability for the corporations. A "kill switch" for AI. This is what regulation looks like when you let SV billionaires and the "rationalists" control the narrative on AI risks. Enough already. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/18/g...”

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“Governor Newsom signs an executive order on AI safety ↘️ www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/18/g...”

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15 experts · 41 posts · 10d ago
Mike Masnick Scott McGrath Grace Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Dan Hon Doll Alex Rubinsteyn
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“Did you try this yourself? Because I feel like a lot of people who dismiss AI coding outright have no idea what it's like. People are criticizing and fighting the idea of it they have in their head…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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3 experts · 20 posts · 10d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Dan Hon
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“Yeah. To be clear I'm not saying AI did it because AI cannot do things. But the people who deployed AI recklessly did it.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eileen Clancy 🧿: I don't see this as "AI did wrong." A huge library of targets in Iran was created decades ago. Targeting data on the school was 7 years old. Under Biden, a civilian harm mitigation unit would've ch…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): The humans abdicated judgment to the machine, and that was exactly by design. The system designers wanted them to do that.
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2 experts · 4 posts · 12d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator Dan Hon
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“✋ "AI psychosis" 👉 "Autonomized AI sacrifice"” evidence ↗
Dan Hon: "First we will fall in love with it, then we will worship it, finally we will make sacrifices to it" Arguably we are already doing the latter
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: "First we will fall in love with it, then we will worship it, finally we will make sacrifices to it" Arguably we are already doing the latter
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