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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings The System From Nowhere Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception Questions & unknowns · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 13d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

22 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · CJ
“OpenAI is begging for money so they don't release a monster when not releasing a monster is in fact very easy. Their systems can all be turned off (and if they can't, uh?) openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
22 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Deedy Das Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +14
6 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Developing Compute & infrastructure Analysis 2d ago
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system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jeffrey Vagle
“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…”

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no…”

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“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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AI consciousness misconception essay

Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Abeba Birhane, Anna Ciaunica PhD
“what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...” evidence ↗
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Abeba Birhane Eryk Salvaggio Anna Ciaunica PhD
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“Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Abeba Birhane: what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Eryk Salvaggio: what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Abeba Birhane: that question does not have a simple yes or no answer. you'll have to read the book
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