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Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
sex AI apocalypse essay

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Real oversight needs authority that does not depend on remaining welcome in the community it oversees: disclosure, enforceable conflicts rules, protected whistleblowers, independent replication, &…people whose concerns are more immediate than a machine apo…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Luke Stark Moa Johansson Frank Pasquale Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

““Real oversight needs authority that does not depend on remaining welcome in the community it oversees: disclosure, enforceable conflicts rules, protected whistleblowers, independent replication, &…people whose concerns are more immediate than a machine apo…”

“Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....”

3 experts discussed this · 24 posts
Timnit Gebru: Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....
Timnit Gebru: Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. P…
Timnit Gebru: "In 2025 the book he co-wrote with MIRI’s executive director, Nate Soares, about why superhuman AI would kill us all, made the New York Times bestseller list." The New York Times, amplifying eugeni…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 15d ago
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frontier labs rogue ideology essay

Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Erin Kissane Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish ae By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…”

“I think we’re finally getting somewhere on Explaining “AI Safety“ to regular people buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
tweety fish: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
e.w. niedermeyer: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
tweety fish: FINE
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Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago

theatlantic.com

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Frank Pasquale
“I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about culture and industry attitude to safety) www.theatlantic.com/tec…” evidence ↗
10 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
angela zhou Suresh Venkatasubramanian Nick Diakopoulos Frank Pasquale Dare Obasanjo tante Charles Logan Oliver Lemon +2
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Suresh Venkatasubramanian: I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about cult…
Gina Helfrich: It was going so well, until the final paragraph.
angela zhou: I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about cult…
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Primary source theatlantic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 11d ago

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Justin Hendrix, Frank Pasquale
“"A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership."” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Alix Dunn Frank Pasquale
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Frank Pasquale: “The ‘my AI did it, don’t blame me’ defence is legally weak. It’s already failed for chatbot suicide cases” www.ft.com/content/2c24...
Meredith Broussard: “The ‘my AI did it, don’t blame me’ defence is legally weak. It’s already failed for chatbot suicide cases” www.ft.com/content/2c24...
José Marichal: If these guys drown in lawsuits before they ever go public, There's going to be a lot of unecessary data center infrastructure with a huge bill coming due
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Primary source ft.com ↗
Established Policy & governance Analysis 10d ago
encryption going dark lawful intercept

Everything is about to “go dark”

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““The destruction of the low-hanging vulnerability fruit will make law enforcement (and intelligence) agencies’ need much more acute. The demand for constructed, intentional backdoors will re-start in earnest” blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Frank Pasquale Julian Sanchez Matthew Green Mary Branscombe
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““The destruction of the low-hanging vulnerability fruit will make law enforcement (and intelligence) agencies’ need much more acute. The demand for constructed, intentional backdoors will re-start in earnest” blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Matthew Green: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wish folks could get past trotting comments that just confirm their priors because the actual answers to this are going to turn out to be about culture and the technosocial side of things and laz…
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Primary source blog.cryptographyengineering.com ↗