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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.

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Timnit Gebru Luke Stark Moa Johansson Frank Pasquale Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

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

“Och orkar man inte läsa en hel bok så kan man läsa även här: 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 5d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

13 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +5

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 19d ago
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AI black box industry myth

The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Timnit Gebru Joanna Bryson Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Frank Pasquale

“"No one understands" You say a whole bunch of things like they are facts. Which they are not. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean "no one understands." www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...”

“Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techp…”

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Timnit Gebru: Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized b…
Timnit Gebru: The absolute disrespect with which even those of you who say you "have respect" for me teat my decades long expertise, receipts body of work and discourse based on that never ceases to amaze me.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): "risk taking human existence" wtf is this person on about
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Established AI field signal Resource 13d ago
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Tech Influence Watch resource

Tech Influence Watch

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Molly White Brian Merchant Ali Alkhatib Gil Durán Frank Pasquale By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news”

“My first guest is @molly.wiki; we dig into her new Tech Influence Watch project, discuss the tidal wave of AI and crypto cash hitting the US election cycle, and the implications for democracy.”

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Molly White: The industries spending hundreds of millions to write their own rules are counting on voters not knowing where the money comes from or what it’s buying. The goal of this project is to make sure the…
Molly White: If you know journalists covering these races, researchers studying tech policy, or voters in targeted districts — send them to the site. Here’s the full launch announcement: www.citationneeded.news…
Molly White: The site updates in close to real time from FEC filings. Look up your state, your district, your candidates — particularly if you're in Alabama, California, Georgia, Oklahoma, or South Carolina whe…
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Established Models & releases Signal 13d ago
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Anthropic claude morals ai

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Emily M. Bender Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Jason Koebler Scott McGrath Ronen Tamari Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale +5

“And every time I pause to look back at that, it seems like the hype has gotten bigger, more extensive, and more insidious. This week, I am seeing credulous media coverage of Anthropic consulting with religious thinkers to try to work out how to "grow" Claud…”

“Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.””

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Eryk Salvaggio: Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.”
Louise Amoore: Well it’s interesting. I mean, to me the problem here is this notion of “to abide by a moral code”.. so the reduction of ethics to a code or a set of principles by which we live or “abide”. This is…
Louise Amoore: actions according to their fit to a code, well then this is already a matter of exercising normative power. If instead we ask how do ethical norms arise in the context of algorithmic power (exercis…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 14d ago
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frontier labs rogue ideology essay

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

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Erin Kissane Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish ae By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

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

““Their fundamental goal is to tell a story about a cool little guy having hacker adventures, and the picture presented in the incident report is exactly that.” buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

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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

10 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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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

2c24ece3 ac99 43a8 b0e6 4a3867e37ebf

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Alix Dunn Frank Pasquale
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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”

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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

1 expert

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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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

theatlantic.com

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Luke Stark Frank Pasquale

““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Frank Pasquale: “According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, human…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: what worries me is that Sanders seems to accept the broligarchs’ claim that the Computer God they say they’re building is actually possible. I agree it’s normative a bad idea, but I also think it’s…
Luke Stark: “According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, human…
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Primary source theatlantic.com ↗