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Multiple readings Security incident disclosure — July 2026 Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging arxiv.org Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions
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Established Safety & security Development 7d 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
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"When we started analysis, we used commercial APIs. This did not work: requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails. We ran the forensic analysis instead on our own infra: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our en…”

Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“These programs are made from humanity's collective efforts. It's vital that their code and weights be available to all human beings, not just so that progress can be iterated faster, but also so that bad actors can be stopped faster as well. Great example h…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago
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arxiv.org

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Aram Sinnreich Pavel ae Andrea Lathrop Matthew Sheffield
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
ae: Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social
ae: this is funny "Lemma 1 (NAND Gates in AoE II). It is possible to build and operate a NAND gate in the scenario editor by using one player, two units acting as the {0, 1} bits, and no other components"
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Also, the Town Square can speak Chinese.
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Established Models & releases Research 15d ago
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LLMs introspection reality check paper

Can LLMs Introspect? A Reality Check

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Shauli Ravfogel Matthew Sheffield

“Some AI interpretability researchers seem prone to mistake externally attributed function for internal methods. In their haste to pronounce that LLMs can "introspect," some researchers fail to rule out more simple descriptions. Great paper on this subject:”

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Established Policy & governance Development 15d ago
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Sanders proposes public AI company ownership

AP Exclusive: Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Matthew Sheffield

“It does seem to be a separation of regulation and fund, but more effort should be put into preserving independence, including a 2/3 confirmation requirement, and potentially a clause making their removal dependent on Senate impeachment. He definitely is tal…”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Matthew Sheffield: If AI is going to be as destructive to the current economy as many companies say, Bernie Sanders's partial nationalization idea makes sense. (Unmentioned here is that China has effectively been doi…
Matthew Sheffield: As long as the government doesn't have to pay for the stock, there's no risk. The entire center-to-right would bail them out anyway. So this is just an end-run around the pretense. Might as well ge…
Matthew Sheffield: No buyout, a free assignment of stock ownership.
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Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
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AI consciousness essay discourse

No one thinks Midjourney is alive, that's a big problem for people who think that Claude is

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Marielza Matthew Sheffield

“This is why disembodied artificial systems will never become conscious. They have no actual experience in the world that is a ground truth. Stacking an billions of abstract relationalities will not create even one somatic reality. Much more on that idea here:”

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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 17d ago
AI slop writing dominates LinkedIn X

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

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Matthew Sheffield

“41% of longer LinkedIn posts are entirely AI-generated according to detector service Pangram. 25% of Xitter posts were. (Caveat: AI-detection services have been demonstrated to have false positives and negatives.) www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...”

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Established Culture, work & education Development 14d ago
US workers support AI wealth fund survey

Majority of U.S. workers support an AI wealth fund as tech layoffs surge, survey finds

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Matthew Sheffield

“Bernie Sanders plan to tax large AI companies half of their stock shares is supported by 69% of Americans. This is why even Trump is talking about it now. You don't see this kind of bipartisan agreement on many issues.”

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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago

philpapers.org

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Matthew Sheffield

“While many American AI researchers make claims that large language models might be sentient enough to be moral patients, Google's DeepMind lab is a lot more realistic in this regard. Senior staff scientist Alexander Lerchner has emphatically denied that dis…”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
Richard Dawkins Claude AI delusion essay

Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion - Flux

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Matthew Sheffield

“I think the allure of such a hypothetical achievement is very strong for many tech people who are not well-read in philosophy or religion. The core problem is their computational functionalist theory of mind, which is rather impoverished. I discussed Dawkin…”

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Debates gaining attention

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4 experts · 46 posts · 6d ago
Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings SE Gyges Matthew Sheffield
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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2 experts · 17 posts · 6d ago
Matt Darling Matthew Sheffield
Matt Darling: Several days of wandering around Ithaca, trying to come up with a plan. Comes up with a plan: don't let them have weapons. Forgets to lock the door to the weapons room.
Matt Darling: You really have to wonder what the mechanism of their exposure to the Odyssey is, given it's clearly not the poem.
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