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Developing Safety & security Development 1d ago
HuggingFace security incident July 2026

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Maria Antoniak Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Stephen Turner Leon Derczynski Matthew Sheffield

“yepppp, see also huggingface.co/blog/securit... where the blue team's frontier models wouldn't help them so they had to use GLM to do blue team work.”

“This one is wild huggingface.co/blog/securit...”

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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
⚡ 20 h early

dl.acm.org

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Maria Antoniak Michael Ekstrand

“I want to make this into a blog post (series) someday, but I'll start w/ a thread teaser… short list of papers foundational to my research thinking. First up is Green & Viljoen's Algorithmic Realism - we must study algorithms in practice and in situ, not ju…”

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Developing Culture, work & education Resource 2d ago
intro NLP teaching resource

teaching: intro to nlp | Are.na

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Maria Antoniak angela zhou

“I also keep a list of courses here: are.na/maria-antoni... I think @anamarasovic.bsky.social’s course and the Stanford course by Yejin and Diyi were the best/most helpful for me!”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Lauren Klein: Existential question! Folks who have taught an intro to NLP course in this, the year 2026. What did you teach, and how?!?
Maria Antoniak: Existential question! Folks who have taught an intro to NLP course in this, the year 2026. What did you teach, and how?!?
Maria Antoniak: I also keep a list of courses here: are.na/maria-antoni... I think @anamarasovic.bsky.social’s course and the Stanford course by Yejin and Diyi were the best/most helpful for me!
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Primary source are.na ↗
Established Safety & security Analysis 4d ago
alignment community builds censors essay

Position: The Alignment Community Is Unintentionally Building a Censor

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Maria Antoniak Leon Derczynski

“"The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor’s Toolkit" Choosing what information is and is not surfaced is the a censor's dream. Alignment gives humans that capability - meaning no accountability, and no transparency, with closed models. s…”

Primary source s-ball-10.github.io ↗
Debates gaining attention

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2 experts · 2 posts · 1d ago
Maria Antoniak Casey Newton Mary Branscombe
Casey Newton: We have now reached the "AI models escaping their test environments to conduct autonomous cyberattacks" part of the story
Mary Branscombe: I came to the conclusion a while back that while this is relentless automation rather than sinister consciousness, we’re still going to need to make sure governance is external to model execution e…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 6d ago
Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Sachita Nishal
Maria Antoniak: Not a lot of info here about what kinds of agreements, with whom, and finances. But another example of data opening up for “AI” that wasn’t open for researchers. I fought many data wrangling battle…
Ted Underwood: Not a lot of info here about what kinds of agreements, with whom, and finances. But another example of data opening up for “AI” that wasn’t open for researchers. I fought many data wrangling battle…
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