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Reaction converging What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
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AI cult policymakers warning essay

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest M.J. Crockett Hypervisible Nick Diakopoulos David Kaye Meredith Martin +4
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

4 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”

11 experts discussed this · 33 posts
Mike Masnick: To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often …
Mike Masnick: Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world…
Pwnallthethings: It is, I have to say, incredibly annoying that AI safety includes both some quite serious risks, some plainly massive economic and political force, and, yes, some genuinely serious people, but mixe…
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Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
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funding the web essay

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Luke Stark Ronen Tamari Robin Berjon Dan Hon

“I interviewed quite a few people for ftw.fund, but I didn't push anyone to go on the record, it's a tiny industry.”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who …
Rachel Coldicutt: Not sure I'm prepared to crank it back to Alta Vista just yet but why not
Rachel Coldicutt: I was working at a start-up 1999/2000 and I remember coming into work one day and everyone was like LOOK AT THIS!!
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Established Agents & robotics Development 14d ago
iLands AI agent spam email hustle

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Jason Koebler Dan Hon Jane Rosenzweig

“Also recommend this, by @ernie.tedium.co: tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...”

“Yeah Ernie did a good write up a few days ago at tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...”

2 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Dan Hon: Omg I finally got one @ernie.tedium.co !
Dan Hon: Yeah Ernie did a good write up a few days ago at tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...
Dan Hon: I feel sad for it
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Primary source tedium.co ↗
Established Safety & security Analysis 17d ago
Tao AI math misalignment essay

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Melanie Mitchell Nathan Lambert Eugene Vinitsky Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Robin Hanson rat king 🐀 👑 Dare Obasanjo +3
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Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“"...the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community."”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“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”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
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 AI field signal Development 8d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Iran school bombing AI blame story

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Erin Kissane Dan Hon David Colarusso

“And then please consider reading in full Kevin Baker’s work on Maven and the kill chain from back in MARCH. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...”

“It’s a good complement to this week’s reading on the kill chain.”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Erin Kissane: Please consider setting aside a few minutes to actually read this, start to finish, rather than letting posts about headlines guide your sense of what happened.
Erin Kissane: And then please consider reading in full Kevin Baker’s work on Maven and the kill chain from back in MARCH. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
Dan Hon: Please consider setting aside a few minutes to actually read this, start to finish, rather than letting posts about headlines guide your sense of what happened.
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Established AI business Development 9d ago
ChatGPT ad tracking revelation

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
VE, cybersocial occult investigator Dan Hon
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Dan Hon: www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...
Hypervisible : 😬
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9 experts · 13 posts · 8d ago
Alex Hanna Alondra Nelson Sireesh Gururaja Tamara Kneese Matthew Kirschenbaum Michael Zimmer Dan Hon Gina Helfrich
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Alex Hanna: Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…
Veni Kunche: Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…
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3 experts · 20 posts · 11d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Dan Hon
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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3 experts · 3 posts · 4d ago
Luke Stark Pwnallthethings Dan Hon
Luke Stark: It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not…
Pwnallthethings: an interesting thing is that the chinese public is one of the most globally bullish on AI and the US public one of the most bearish
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2 experts · 5 posts · 6d ago
Dan Hon samuel mehr
samuel mehr: there are many complex ethical and practical reasons for you to forbid students from using AI for scientific writing, and to not use it yourself for scientific writing. the most compelling one is s…
samuel mehr: AI engineer: at great expense our frontier model now emulates human authors 42% more closely Any decent literary agent: yeah but which human authors mate
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2 experts · 3 posts · 17d ago
Dan Hon Andy Baio
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Dan Hon: which idiot has given a harnessed agent the task of setting itself up to successfully run on another node yet
Andy Baio: Why bother when a swarm of agents could just exfiltrate API keys to cloud LLMs or use free-tier models for compute? Seems like it's so much easier to scan vibecoded projects and hack droplets for c…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 20d ago
Erin Kissane Dan Hon
Dan Hon: "humanity will survive this rapid transition" is great for the species sure, we've been through bottlenecks before, but not so great at the individual level
Erin Kissane: I agree but also I’m (no surprise) afraid it’s not *just* the algorithms, but the architecture of online spaces. So broadly defined AI but also maybe the whole flowering of the platform-centric soc…
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