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Established Safety & security Development 4d ago
⚡ 5 h early
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
How the network is reacting 8 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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Research & technical analysis

8 experts

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

1 expert

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 Development 6d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Meta Muse Wonder model launch

Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“When @brbarrett.bsky.social told me last week that Meta might still "win AI" I almost choked -- but he's right -- and now I can't stop thinking about it!”

“Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier www.wired.com/story/muse-won… #AI #Meta”

Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
⚡ 3632 h early

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“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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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.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“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 AI research Development 3d ago
Joanna Bryson AI researcher AMA TechCrunch

You should read this super-interesting AMA with AI researcher Joanna Bryson | TechCrunch

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“I did a reddit science AMA some years ago which was featured on their front page, and received 1864 comments / questions and 9,535 upvotes. I can't find it with an @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for "joanna bryson reddit AMA"; instead a Kevin Warwick one comes u…”

Established Policy & governance Research 3d ago
synthetic persons legal lacuna paper

Of, for, and by the people: the legal lacuna of synthetic persons - Artificial Intelligence and Law

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“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…”

Established Policy & governance Development 3d ago
AI summit EU Big Tech convenes

AI summit brings together Big Tech bosses and EU officials

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“"Murphy fears an increased pressure to work faster, with less autonomy and more supervision. Whether an hour saved on emails becomes time to think, or leads to more assignments, depends on employers' decisions and workers' bargaining power. " yep! Exactly l…”

Established AI field signal Resource 5d ago
OSF open science framework resource

OSF

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“A colleague stepped out of #cyborgWorkers for a Google talk to the EP. Google said Europe was falling behind because it wasn't using AI and this was because women are afraid of AI. This is truly evil – even the "falling behind" part is false! A reminder of …”

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