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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
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OpenAI agent message board discovered

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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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

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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

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“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
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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
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 5d ago
agency and agents substack essay

Agency and Agents

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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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10 experts · 26 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Marc Lanctot Ramon Astudillo Scott McGrath Grace SE Gyges jake Paul Hünermund
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“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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