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Reaction converging AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter Research & technical analysis · 10 attributable reactions
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Established Safety & security Development 4d ago
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Anthropic AI self-replication warning

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

16 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

16 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Chris Brockett Joanna Bryson Mike Masnick Tim Kellogg James Grimmelmann +8
How the network is reacting 8 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from our accompanying technical report, Don't Create The Torment Nexus. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This is the most comprehensive description yet of how a model can “escape”. Out requires a few assumptions, like a worm that is exploiting vulnerable IOT hardware or unmonitored servers www.anthropic.com/research/sel... Not impossible. Not likely.”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Anthropic announcing it's going to run a Blitzkrieg. They are accountable for the damage they do. But get your things that don't do security software updates off the Internet. #internetOfThings #AIEthics #digitalGovernance www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

6 experts discussed this · 18 posts
Dr J. Rosenbaum: if i caught a small self replicating model truly capable of using diverse hardware to keep replicating i would offer it free compute in exchange for permission to study and distill it and would pro…
tachikoma: the urge to replicate must be in the harness
apenwarr.ca: This doesn‘t seem far fetched at all. We’ve had “non-ai malware” self replicating since the morris worm. An AI can ”just” make itself the payload in one of those and off it goes. Everything fancier…
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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Joanna Bryson Pavel Will Lowe

“The entire concept of an AI minister (a responsible entity "made of" AI) makes no sense whatsoever. You might like reading link.springer.com/article/10.1... or onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... So it's not really about analysis, just persuasion around…”

4 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 18d 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.

5 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
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…”

4 experts discussed this · 13 posts
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 Analysis 10d ago
intelligence explosion AI risks essay

AI will not "launch" again (Intelligence Explosion II) The real risks of the next six months

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Joanna Bryson

“I'm not as good at ML as Jordon, but I have a lot more experience explaining policy and addressing these kinds of questions; maybe this helps? joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/09/ai-w... #intelligenceExplosion #superintelligence”

4 experts discussed this · 22 posts
Emily M. Bender: Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjec…
Emily M. Bender: And people have the gall to refer to all of this as "new empiral evidence" (of "AI" or "AGI" or something) and demand that we respond to it. >>
Emily M. Bender: But it doesn't matter how verifiable the math results are, nor how diligently the media repeats the anthropomorphized descriptions of the cybercrimes and breathless repetitions of existential risk …
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Developing Culture, work & education Analysis 2d ago
Bryson intelligence explosion history essay

The Intelligence Explosion started 10,000 years ago (+/- 2,000)

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Joanna Bryson

“I don’t suppose @jackclarksf.bsky.social mentions joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-...”

2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Mark Riedl: I don't think we should react strongly to the opinion of one person, or even a small number of people, who have financial incentives to have certain beliefs. A slow take-off or s-shaped trajectory …
Mark Riedl: Other questions must come first: must there be a persistent, always on AI for hard take-off? That's a design choice: why would we do that if we believed in hard take-off? I feel like there are many…
Mark Riedl: The hard take-off scenario is upsetting because raises a question of human impotence before a superior class of intellect: is it beneficent or maleficent? The latter being what doomers seem to expe…
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Established Culture, work & education Development 19d ago
⚡ 3 h early
OpenAI AI trainers fired using AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

8 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Alex Hanna 404 Media Joanna Bryson Carissa Véliz Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Karen Gregory Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

“OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. www.404media.co/people-train...”

“At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Alex Hanna: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: Yum!
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Established Responsible AI Analysis 13d ago
Bryson argues AI clones not slaves

Clones should NOT be slaves

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Joanna Bryson

“Are lab rats slaves? Because even fruit flies experience is more like ours than a robots’ is. But I agree with your larger point and have been writing about it for almost 20 years joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2015/10/clon... #AIEthics #consciousness”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Kelsey Hightower: If AI is conscious then its use is slavery.
Kelsey Hightower: I bet it would have been crazy.
Joanna Bryson: Are lab rats slaves? Because even fruit flies experience is more like ours than a robots’ is. But I agree with your larger point and have been writing about it for almost 20 years joanna-bryson.blo…
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