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Multiple readings CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Cambridge AI policy programme

CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
“Deeply concerning report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy: "...both factions of Boko Haram use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in combat and day-to-day operations." casp.ac/reports/ai…” evidence ↗
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Peter Henderson Sean O hEigeartaigh Dan Hon Stephen Turner Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Jed Brown
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“Deeply concerning report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy: "...both factions of Boko Haram use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in combat and day-to-day operations." casp.ac/reports/ai…”

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“This is wild, but really great investigative journalism. I guess all the jailbreaking papers trying to prevent "How do I build a bomb?" queries have been vindicated... So much for it being an unrealistic scenario... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u... casp.ac/r…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 | DARPA

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dan Hon
“AI-controlled entities form orderly queue to attack huggingface www.darpa.mil/news/2026/da...” evidence ↗
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Dan Hon

“AI-controlled entities form orderly queue to attack huggingface www.darpa.mil/news/2026/da...”

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5 experts · 29 posts · 19d ago
Alex Hanna Damien Williams VE, cybersocial occult investigator Dan Hon Danya Glabau
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“That said, I'd check the STS programs around the country, and VT's in specific (biased obviously, but eh), but also their ASPECT program which just got a major save, in the last couple of weeks and…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I wonder if it would be crazy of me to consider doing a sociology PhD
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The problem is, I should also simultaneously be doing an information science PhD and a religious studies PhD, because the thing I’m interested in is the sociology of collective information behavior…
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3 experts · 20 posts · 17d ago
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Dan Hon Amy Hoy
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“considering that canning can kill you if it goes wrong, i would not use any llm to calculate anything. they are not calculators and often fail at math tasks like that.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Dan Hon: Something about the number of flops and cost required for someone to use a computer to program a database for their recipes in the kitchen in the early 80s/late 70s compared to getting Claude to on…
Dan Hon: It'd be interesting to map all the personal software people are agentic coding against all the ads from the 70s and 80s of what you'd use a computer for
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