global workspace theory language models paper
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“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”
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“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”
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Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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Anthropic AI self-replication warning
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“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...”
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“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.”
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“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...”
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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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America.gov US government resource
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“America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns”
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“Jessica Ji weighed in on the new #AI-powered https://t.co/sEHIhq7mvb website for @USATODAY, saying that it can be a useful resource for people trying to navigate U.S. government websites. She also notes its risks: “When this kind of AI system is empowered t…”
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“The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUx... Read more by @madialder.bsky.social: fedscoop.com/o…”
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Julian Sanchez: Ok wow. This is both extensive and deeply surreal. Tell America.gov to Play Minecraft.
Julian Sanchez: Amusingly, the chatbot appears to be unable to recognize that it said anything weird. It “thinks” it just responded that it can’t play minecraft.
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AI used to remove smart TV ads tracking
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“Finally a good use case for AI techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...”
“👀 "People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again" #weekendproject techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...”
Palantir CTO AI researchers smoking claim
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“This is dumb www.businessinsider.com/ai-researche...”
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Karl Bode: CTO said a thing!
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account): Alert the uncritical transcriptionists!
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“Anthropic floats a sample bill. It would allow the gov’t to block a model that has a “foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people” www.politico.com/news/2026/10...”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Well, the oil companies screwed us, the insurance companies and AMA screwed us, the tobacco industry screwed us, the military industrial complex screwed us, Facebook screwed us, but I'm sure this time letting industry write its own regulation bills will go …”
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Mark Riedl: Snark alert: let me just note that some employees of OpenAI and Anthropic already “foresee” a 10% chance of 8 billion people.
Mark Riedl: Anthropic floats a sample bill. It would allow the gov’t to block a model that has a “foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50…
Andrea Lathrop: (but with this bill, they can only get shut down if METR foresees it for them.)
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AI not ready strategic conflicts paper
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“I wrote a paper on why AI ahoule not be used in military planning militaryai.ai/anthropic-cl... COLM Workshop paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16189”
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Mark Riedl: If you find this concerning, come find me at the CoLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLM where I will be presenting a poster titled "AI is Not Ready for Strategic Conflict" arxiv.org/abs/…
Mark Riedl: Source of quote: Time's interview with Trump time.com/article/2026...
Mark Riedl: Here's the abstract arxiv.org/abs/2609.16189
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LLMs don't reason MIT Tech Review essay
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“Former member of the DeepMind AlphaGo team: LLMs don’t do reasoning www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1... I would probably make a more mild claim: LLMs do reasoning, but not very well.”
“Hey look at this * Philips updates instructions for ultrasound linked to 4 deaths www.medtechdive.com/news/philips... * LLMs don’t reason www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1... * Beneath resilient financial markets, risks remain elevated and vulnerabiliti…”
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“Why didn't Mythos fix the flaws Mythos identified? www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/a...”
“AI is creating jobs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/a...”
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“Someone turned my blog post on the intuitions behind LLMs into a 8th grade instructional workbook and I'm just melting Here's the blog post: medium.com/@mark-riedl/...”
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“I spoke with CNN on LLM chain-of-thought and why AI labs are having trouble monitoring agents. Final version ended up focusing on the use of shorthand that agents are starting to prefer. It's not the most interesting aspect, imo, but perhaps the easiest to …”
Anthropic confirms Claude weapons surveillance use
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“I wrote a paper on why AI ahoule not be used in military planning militaryai.ai/anthropic-cl... COLM Workshop paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16189”
OpenAI agent safety incidents report
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“OpenAI agent steals crypto wallet to get the funds it needed to complete a task gizmodo.com/ai-agent-hac... Looks like the agent was asked to update a crypto trading app but wasn't able to withdraw Sepolia funds (used to test blockchain deployments) from th…”
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“So yeah, here is the paper from 2016 in which we talk about value alignment, the incomplete reward problem, and proclivity for reinforcement learning agents to reward hack. The scenario was stealing drugs from a pharmacy b/c it failed to understand social n…”
