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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
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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.

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.

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
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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

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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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Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago
⚡ 57 h early

An opinionated guide to which ai b22

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Nicole Hennig Meredith Martin Alice Schwarze

“I know. I did write up some of this here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...”

“An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - Ethan Mollick www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionat… #AI #guides #Claude #ChatGPT”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Ethan Mollick: Life is full of things that, by complexity or design or lack of care or required time, are hard to navigate: healthcare, government, personal finance, school forms are all among them It is why I fe…
Ethan Mollick: For example, I did a decade of work with organizations trying to teach financial literacy because so many people suffer from making (or being tricked into making) bad choices. The fact that you now…
Ethan Mollick: It is one of the things that I think is being lost in the good versus evil AI debates. These models, as they are today, are actually capable of solving some very hard, very real problems. I worry t…
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Developing Culture, work & education Resource 2d ago
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Wharton GAIL AI research insights page

Research and Insights

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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

Agency and Agents

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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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
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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4 experts · 10 posts · 6d ago
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Sung Kim René Walter
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Ethan Mollick: Kind of surprised that we are not seeing more radical political ideas built around AI capabilities, the way that early mass industrialization was a prime motivator in the conceptions of capitalism,…
René Walter: Bit of a myopic lense here, all those ideologies already have automatization baked in, and stuff like fully automated luxury communism just seems like another iteration.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 1d ago
Ethan Mollick Stephen Turner mackuba.eu
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 · 3d ago
Ethan Mollick apenwarr.ca
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ethan Mollick: Multiplayer AI, where many people in an organization can use AI together to accomplish goals, remains one of the biggest (non-technical) problems in using AI. Approaches tend to be pretty primitive…
Ethan Mollick: I dunno, thats what i call it? probably yc people do too
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2 experts · 4 posts · 19d ago
Ethan Mollick jake
Ethan Mollick: The fact that LLMs have theory of mind at all is a huge deal (and was controversial when discovered in GPT-4), but you can still see the limitations when models need to consider more than one audie…
Ethan Mollick: Work products often include information that only matters to the creator and is irrelevant or confusing to users, like references to previous drafts or problems solved in earlier iterations. It is …
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2 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Ethan Mollick austegard.com
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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