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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
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Anthropic AI misuse September report

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

18 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

18 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 7 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

7 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Report here. www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Thomson Reuters announced it is moving off Claude to Alibaba's Qwen to cut costs. From today's Anthropic report: Alibaba extracted 151M+ Claude exchanges to help train Qwen. TR now deploys Westlaw on a vast trove of stolen US IP. @AnthropicAI's report: http…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@kotekjedi_ml Here Ant's report https://t.co/22vHruWVqH And the paper from @kotekjedi_ml @DavidSchmotz @iliaishacked https://t.co/wuCpNZaQ0d”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
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AI cult policymakers warning essay

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

4 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”

11 experts discussed this · 33 posts
Mike Masnick: To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often …
Mike Masnick: Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world…
Pwnallthethings: It is, I have to say, incredibly annoying that AI safety includes both some quite serious risks, some plainly massive economic and political force, and, yes, some genuinely serious people, but mixe…
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Established Models & releases Development 19d ago
Anthropic predictive surveillance activists

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Note. how none of the "whistleblowers" are talking about the actual killing and surveillance machines they're creating 🙄 prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Hypervisible : I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Luke Stark: I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Ingrid Burrington: I think a lot about a colleague who said to me "Dario wouldn't do that" re: some shitty thing Anthropic had in fact done, like they were personal friends (they are not)
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Accelerating Models & releases Release 20h ago
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OpenAI Dots product announced

Dots are OpenAI

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“OpenAI: AI is an existential threat to humankind. Also OpenAI: see how cute these little guys are? www.engadget.com/2272230/dots...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

““What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.”

Established AI field signal Signal 11d ago

Us military ai false intelligence china ship

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Established AI field signal Resource 11d ago
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AI kill chain anatomy interactive resource

Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“I was thinking about things like @HeidyKhlaaf's work https://t.co/0Nnpm89kKl”

“Excellent work from the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and @airwars.bsky.social. "To demystify military AI, we construct an abstract kill chain that reflects an AI targeting cycle."”

Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“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.”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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 Culture, work & education Signal 5d ago

Agi house ai culture

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“An AI house with a *dark side*? Well, I never! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...”

“To the sociology PhD student who is inevitably doing their ethnography embedded in this insane community: I really look forward to reading your future book.”

Established Safety & security Development 5d ago
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Meta Muse zero-day vulnerability disclosed

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"it’s like they didn’t, in my opinion, think about security, which is really worrisome." yeah, weird, man. I'm sure regulators will handle it.”

Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
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Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

““Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.…”

Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
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nytimes.com

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
New AI field signal Signal 2h ago
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Established Culture, work & education Development 8d ago
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Napster AI teacher cloning launch

Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Many out there want to treat AI in education seriously. Then there's this from *Napster*. "Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a 'copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.'” w…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Really odd repackaging. Will parents who spent time in their dorm rooms downloading music with Napster want it now to clone teachers? That seems like a hard sell.”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Hypervisible : Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Hypervisible : “Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a ‘copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.’” 💀
Charles Logan: Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
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Ai software coding apps

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytime…”

“We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what peopl…”

5 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Paul Ford: Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they ca…
Paul Ford: I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.
Doll: Working on the foundations to make killer apps tbh.
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“mere moments ago the nytimes published this article which heavily features Muse's ability to make calls, lol: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...”

“Perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of understatements. Brilliant parody, or misplaced earnestness? I have no idea, but it’s amazing! “Agents require a level of trust that many people may be uncomfortable with, especially with a company, like…”

New AI field signal Signal 13h ago

Writing thinking college ai

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Hmm, this professor does expect writing, contrary to what the title suggests. From his policy: "Anything that appears in your paper must be typed by you into your document. You may not cut and paste text from any AI tool directly into your draft..." (1/2) w…”

“I’ve been waiting for this, but unfortunately ‘Maybe Socrates was right about Phaedrus’ isn’t the take I was waiting for.”

New AI field signal Analysis 17h ago
AI doxxing assistance essay

Dox for Me, O Muse

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
Shared emphasis

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered a…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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Palantir NHS critique analysis

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“Palantir sells a myth: «For all Thiel and Karp’s boasts of omniscience, AI-fuelled warfare and civilisational conflict, Palantir is fundamentally a software business … What its leadership has grasped is that in an age of revanchist nationalism, there is an …”

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8 experts · 30 posts · 9d ago
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ali Alkhatib: can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…
Ali Alkhatib: its usefulness as a framework, like all conceptual frameworks, is mediated to some extent (maybe entirely determined!) by its usefulness to people. if it continues to be useful, then its not a bad …
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5 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Hypervisible : Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but t…
Tim Carmody: Also the AI agents on the market (even/especially Muse, the new popular agent for nontechnical people) are too powerful, suck up too much data, and have too lax permissions for regular folks who do…
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4 experts · 15 posts · 6d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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4 experts · 15 posts · 11d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
tweety fish: instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…
tweety fish: this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing usefu…
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