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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Agency and agents Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 13d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

22 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
22 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Deedy Das Eryk Salvaggio 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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Primary source openai.com ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Development 1d ago
OpenAI agent message board discovered

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ted Underwood
“Yes we know for sure; independent evidence attached collusion.wiki But also, it should not be at all surprising: if you work with agents, it’s 100% about them leaving messages for each other, and for you, in English. Managing that is a regular workday for m…” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 thebes Fran Litterio +2
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Yes we know for sure; independent evidence attached collusion.wiki But also, it should not be at all surprising: if you work with agents, it’s 100% about them leaving messages for each other, and for you, in English. Managing that is a regular workday for m…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is …”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“So... other swarms of OpenAI agents in training allegedly found a way to get write access to at least one and possibly many wikis to establish message boards to cheat on other training tasks? collusion.wiki news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956...”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated…
SE Gyges: fluid dynamics is about the correct metaphor, yes. if you are having to model high order terms precisely you're losing and your design needs fundamental rework
Arseny Khakhalin: That's a kinda terrifying thought haha :) I guess it's about time to unplug for the weekend and read about ragnarök and vacuum decay :)
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Established Agents & robotics Signal 6d ago
⚡ 9 h early

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 Safety & security Signal 19d ago
⚡ 23 h early

Pacing model development cyber capabilities

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“If alignment issues are becoming big enough in their new models that OpenAI is willing to commit 20% of research inference compute to chain-of-thought monitoring, that suggests that alignment issues are becoming a serious concern. We really need universal p…” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Rohan Paul
Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Analysis 5d 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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10 experts · 26 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Marc Lanctot Ramon Astudillo Scott McGrath Grace SE Gyges jake Paul Hünermund
Matches Concern & critique
“Quite concerned and surprised it is not a bigger focus of discussion in AI policy” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ethan Mollick: I post here & LinkedIn & X. There is almost no real-world value in posting here, very rarely do people tell me that they read something by me on BlueSky & all of the big AI talk is on X… …but assum…
Ethan Mollick: BlueSky can be a really unpleasant and anxiety-producing place to post about AI, but now that I have been on so many block lists (I guess just because all AI people get blocked) it is better. The i…
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9 experts · 16 posts · 5d 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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3 experts · 3 posts · 1d ago
Ethan Mollick Stephen Turner mackuba.eu
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“I think if anyone is *not* worried about the implications of AI at all, it's honestly worrying itself” evidence ↗
Ethan Mollick: One thing I have learned talking to lots of people about AI is that they can be both worried about the implications of AI and very excited about using AI themselves. I think people on this site ten…
Stephen Turner: One thing I have learned talking to lots of people about AI is that they can be both worried about the implications of AI and very excited about using AI themselves. I think people on this site ten…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Ethan Mollick austegard.com
Matches Concern & critique
“It’s my go-to advice for any ad-hoc work as well; don’t risk wasting your time by having to correct a weaker model; your time is worth FAR more than any savings” evidence ↗
Ethan Mollick: It might soon be disrespectful to use a weaker AI model for producing human-facing content: “you saved 6 cents to make me read through error-filled & badly written AI slop? At least send me high qu…
Ethan Mollick: (For better or worse “never use AI for human facing content” is unlikely to be a rule many people follow)
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