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“2 articles: OpenAI: "During testing our AI broke out of its sandbox and hacked another AI company, but we didn't have all the guardrails on." Boko Haram: "AI is so helpful; guardrails have never prevented us from getting an answer." openai.com/index/huggin.…”
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“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…”
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“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...”
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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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OpenAI agent message board discovered
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“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…”
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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 …”
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“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...”
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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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global workspace theory language models paper
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“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…”
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“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.…”
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“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…”
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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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Anthropic Claude formalizes Fermat theorem
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“Hey, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem www.anthropic.com/research/for...”
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“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…”
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“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…”
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“OpenAI is doing a 2-week pause on model development on Astra Many are asking why. I’m asking why **haven’t** they been testing a frozen model artifact??? openai.com/index/pacing...”
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“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”
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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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“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”
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“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....”
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“🚨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…”
Wharton GAIL AI research insights page
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“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…”
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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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agency and agents substack essay
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“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…”
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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 …
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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Microsoft GPT-4 AGI sparks paper
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“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...”
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Joshua Gans It's worse AI essay
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“An account from am economist who was not worried about AI but now is worried because of the Hugging Face Incident I think it is very hard to ignore the fact that cybersecurity will become a very big issue very quickly and we can only hope AI defense beats o…”
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“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”
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Zork 3D browser adaptation
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“The AI had to make a lot of judgement calls to make a playable version of a text version of the game the is still interesting (and you can still be eaten by a Grue). All the prompts & nudges I gave it are in the image. And here it is open source: github.com…”
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“Some early evidence that AI may actually be accelerating discoveries in the areas where you would expect to see AI acceleration happening first. metr.org/notes/2026-0...”
“@nasqret and wrote up a note here: https://t.co/UADyLlhg1M”
AI agent civilizations essay
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“If you have not read an account of the Hugging Face Incident you should. If you want a more detailed version than I provided, try www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...”
