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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 Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 5 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 Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jeffrey P. Bigham
“model capability jaggedness is part of the unintuitiveness of current AI, but it's made even less intuitive by tirelessness… wigguming through the jaggedness toward something that looks like success. not quite a paperclip factory, but not so far off. metaph…” evidence ↗
22 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo +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 Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Matteo Wong
“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...” 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

1 expert

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 Models & releases Research 4d ago
⚡ 3 h early
global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · René Walter, Stephan Geering, david-p-reichert.bsky.social
“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…” evidence ↗
8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering david-p-reichert.bsky.social
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

3 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…”

Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Developing Models & releases Research 2d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Anthropic Claude formalizes Fermat theorem

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Tim Kellogg
“Hey, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem www.anthropic.com/research/for...” evidence ↗
5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg SE Gyges Fran Litterio René Walter
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Shared emphasis

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Hey, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem www.anthropic.com/research/for...”

Primary source anthropic.com ↗
New AI field signal Signal 13h ago

AI Referee Paper Leaderboard

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick

“This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ethan Mollick: This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then shar…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: That feels like... a violation of norms
Ted Underwood: This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then shar…
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Primary source d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago
⚡ 7 h early

papers.ssrn.com

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“Some early evidence that Google AI Overviews may be doing to Wikipedia the same thing that coding agents did to StackExchange... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Alex Gude

“Some early evidence that Google AI Overviews may be doing to Wikipedia the same thing that coding agents did to StackExchange... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....”

Primary source papers.ssrn.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
⚡ 42 h early

papers.ssrn.com

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“🚨Our new research examines agentic shopping: can you consistently predict (or, using marketing, influence) what an agent chooses? Nope. We found that even small differences (viewing order of pages, memories) changed AI preferences in unpredictable ways. pap…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Alice Schwarze

“🚨Our new research examines agentic shopping: can you consistently predict (or, using marketing, influence) what an agent chooses? Nope. We found that even small differences (viewing order of pages, memories) changed AI preferences in unpredictable ways. pap…”

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Developing Culture, work & education Resource 2d ago
⚡ 1424 h early
Wharton GAIL AI research insights page

Research and Insights

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“I occasionally get asked why I post so many visual things when new models come out. One reason is that nobody clicks any links so the visual stuff best communicates AI progress. But if you want detailed reads, here is the research from my AI lab at Penn: ga…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Stephan Geering

“I occasionally get asked why I post so many visual things when new models come out. One reason is that nobody clicks any links so the visual stuff best communicates AI progress. But if you want detailed reads, here is the research from my AI lab at Penn: ga…”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Ethan Mollick: Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals…
Ethan Mollick: The format matters a lot less than the content, use whatever method (RFP, PRD, SOP, other TLA) that you know best. Here's the research: gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...
Michiel Bontenbal: Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals…
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Developing Culture, work & education Research 1d ago
Microsoft GPT-4 AGI sparks paper

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 - Microsoft Research

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“Sparks of AGI was a remarkably prescient paper that got a lot of pushback at the time, but absolutely sensed where the vibes were heading with LLMs based on a lot of qualitative experiments. It deserves credit in retrospect. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick

“Sparks of AGI was a remarkably prescient paper that got a lot of pushback at the time, but absolutely sensed where the vibes were heading with LLMs based on a lot of qualitative experiments. It deserves credit in retrospect. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...”

Primary source microsoft.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

How ai is expanding what people do at work

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“This is not optional because not dealing with this change won't make it go away. Plus, this could be a huge boost for both individual satisfaction & firm performance if done properly Our paper: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/... OpenAI: openai.com/index…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Allie K. Miller

“This is not optional because not dealing with this change won't make it go away. Plus, this could be a huge boost for both individual satisfaction & firm performance if done properly Our paper: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/... OpenAI: openai.com/index…”

“Data source: OpenAI https://t.co/wVmFh2t675”

Primary source openai.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

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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 Research & technical analysis
“Maybe anecdotal but I work on AI Research, repost your posts (some, also @simonwillison.net 's) to our internal AI research reading group (~400 people). I read you and Simon exclusively in bsky.” 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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