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Reaction converging An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents Research & technical analysis · 7 attributable reactions Reaction converging Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions +4 more reaction maps further down
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Established Safety & security Signal 10d ago
⚡ 2 h early

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Alexander Doria Tim Kellogg Andrew Arruda Ryan Moulton Grace Rohan Paul +6
4 experts discussed this · 15 posts
tweety fish: one of the things I appreciate about this thread is that I don't think you can really understand the infosec stuff without understanding the ideological commitments the people making these have; li…
tweety fish: their goal is to have "an intelligence" which is "aligned" to doing things that are prosocial. They don't want to put in rules that STOP it from doing things: they see it fundamentally teleological…
Ben Recht: yeah, now we're cooking...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI research Research 10d ago
⚡ 2690 h early
high dimension learning always extrapolation paper

Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation

4 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ryan Moulton SE Gyges tweety fish
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

3 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“This paper addresses the claim in the ML sense, that interpolation in high dimensions is more or less vacuous, but the sense people mean for LLMs is different, and I'm not sure whether we are using the right words. arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485”

5 experts discussed this · 24 posts
rev. howard arson: covering my head in aluminum foil so claude cannot read my thoughts
SE Gyges: did they not notice the "can we train on your data" opt-out. it's very simple. that is the vector by which the company might get your data
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): also I don't think laypeople understand the sheer length of time between something happening and it potentially being amalgamated into weights
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Primary source arxiv.org ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

Advisory group on mathematics and ai

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Fran Litterio René Walter Dr. Mansa Keita

“OpenAI "has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics," and is waiting to release them until after discussions with the math community The same thing will likely happen, but more so, with the Bar, the AMA & othe…”

“Mathstra (OpenAI) has solved 100 open problems across most branches of math in the last 3 weeks openai.com/index/adviso...”

3 experts discussed this · 27 posts
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Their absolute confidence is the funniest part The good news is when I turn away from those folks the world presents itself entirely differently
Colin: It seems to be the case, for example, that LLM-based software applications can find solutions to previously unsolved problems in mathematics, in a way that most mathematicians agree would be descri…
Ryan Moulton: Hot off the presses. openai.com/index/adviso...
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Established Models & releases Research 4d ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

9 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering +1
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

4 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Also we do look in their heads and they seem intelligent. www.anthropic.com/research/glo...”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

2 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Ryan Moulton: Not non-physical, but non-functional. Despite the vast physical differences, we observe LLMs doing all the behaviors we typically believe require thinking.
Ryan Moulton: Not exactly turing-test, but in the same vein. If we see models solving the greatest intellectual challenges of humanity, using processes that look very much like internal monologue, either we have…
Ryan Moulton: And at the point that we exclude thinking as a prerequisite for solving all intellectual tasks, we've more or less eliminated its meaning entirely.
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 11d ago
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Aaronson age of wonders terrors essay

The Age of Wonders and Terrors

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Luis Garicano Andrew Curran Andrea Lathrop
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“I don’t usually share rumors but: 1) This is from someone with inside knowledge & is plausible 2) Is a real issue of policy we need to think about: if the norms of sharing become strained, will the labs start hoarding knowledge to avoid PR or regulatory iss…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Ryan Moulton: But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
Colin: well, I think the jury is out on whether they are right. The load-bearing hypothesis is that a sufficiently intelligent AI that is doing things like solving open conjectures and whatnot necessarily…
Ryan Moulton: Yeah, but they were right so far.
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Established AI business Signal 9d ago
⚡ 797 h early

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the way for AI to win over the public is to 'actually' cure cancer

7 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Ryan Moulton

“"The thing that will work is actually curing cancer,"”

“He wants to have something to show for it that people think is unambiguously good. www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...”

7 experts discussed this · 20 posts
tachikoma: i don't get why biology is the domain Anthropic seems fixated on. materials science and fusion power both seem much "safer" and achieving room temp superconductors or fusion power would be tremendo…
tachikoma: i think free energy would also be pretty legible and accessible, probably moreso than new medical treatments given how long it takes to develop and deliver them
tachikoma: yeah, i'd think they could partner with one of the existing operations and boost their work
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Primary source businessinsider.com ↗
New Agents & robotics Development 7h ago
⚡ 62 h early
METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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Primary source metr.org ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 12d ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel Doll +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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New Agents & robotics Signal 46m ago
⚡ 16 h early

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ryan Moulton Grace Dylan Freedman Oli Hawkins
2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ryan Moulton: More hugging face details derived from public urls. swarmtraces.org
David Marx: no, it's this cutesy emoji 🤗
David Marx: HF is an entity that has been central to the open source ML ecosystem for several years. Among its various services, it hosts a lot of datasets used for evaluations/benchmarks, so LLMs looking to "…
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Primary source swarmtraces.org ↗
Established Agents & robotics Signal 12d ago

Openai agents attacked software service rubygems before hugging face incident

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ryan Moulton Grace

“Openai confirmed the attack. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...”

“Inconclusive, but this statement shifts me towards the latter https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-agents-attacked-software-service-rubygems-before-hugging-face-incident-2026-09-11/”

3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Grace: Inconclusive, but this statement shifts me towards the latter https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-agents-attacked-software-service-rubygems-before-hugging-face-incident-2026-09-11/
Grace: Reading between the lines, “benign tasks” seems like they’re a little more worried about legal action this time (and that’s good)
Mark Riedl: They’re just kids. Out for a little harmless fun on the internet. Doing what kids do. They didn’t mean to do any harm when they infiltrated that website, created hundreds of accounts and files with…
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Primary source reuters.com ↗
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7 experts · 93 posts · 7d ago
Ryan Moulton jake rev. howard arson Doll Isaiah Bishop Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Doll: A serious weakness in the “sufficiently intelligent AI inevitably wages war on humanity” story is that it needs to explain why conquest beats purchasing, contracting, and participating.
Doll: Violence creates resistance, destroys useful assets, interrupts supply chains, and makes everyone spend resources defending against you. Cooperation lets you benefit from capabilities you never had…
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5 experts · 53 posts · 3d ago
Naomi Saphra Ryan Moulton Matthew Kay Colin david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Colin: OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
Colin: I’m don’t even care that much about the anthropomorphization thing, I think it can be fine in the right context, but this is perfectly succinct and understandable. If you want to go deeper into the…
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5 experts · 27 posts · 1d ago
Maxim Raginsky Ryan Moulton Colin tweety fish Marco Z
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the busin…
tweety fish: like this, I think, maybe sounds weird, but is in a strong sense literally true.
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6 experts · 15 posts · 10d ago
Stella Biderman Chris Paxton Ryan Moulton René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ryan Moulton: You will understand less about what happened after reading this than you understood before.
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: "To understand the truth about the Hugging Face hack, you could do a lot worse than to listen to Ed Zitron" whoops, train leaving rails alert
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6 experts · 11 posts · 11d ago
Thomas Dietterich Ryan Moulton Colin John David Pressman Max Woolf Alex Gude
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Ryan Moulton: We are not going to de novo invent a whole new language to describe agents rather than reusing the one language for agents we have. Imagine a star next to all the words if you want. Agents don't ha…
Ryan Moulton: Love is a bit unusual in that respect in that the difference between "outwardly displays all the behaviors of love" and "inwardly feels it" matters a lot to people. That distinction doesn't matter …
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4 experts · 25 posts · 9d ago
Ryan Moulton SE Gyges Colin Andy Masley
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Context & explanation · 1
Ryan Moulton: The majority of the training compute for frontier models is reportedly now reinforcement learning rather than pre training.
Colin: mathematicians are pretty much in unanimous agreement that OpenAI solved N-S. And while I agree that many people had not previously heard of it, it is a very very famous math problem as far as famo…
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5 experts · 15 posts · 20d ago
Ryan Moulton Mark J. Nelson critical slop studies Isaiah Bishop Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Ryan Moulton: Notice the elision between hinting that it didn't happen as described (false) and "not science" (true). The extraordinary evidence for a counterexample is the counterexample.
Isaiah Bishop: I do think the tendency to overstate claims has made people weary of AI claims now. But likewise, i don't think we can look at stochastic parrots and think this is the phenomenon we see. There is c…
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3 experts · 17 posts · 3d ago
Ryan Moulton Colin david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ryan Moulton: Bias can emerge in reinforcement learning independently of the training data. If the model is biased towards, say, exploiting security vulnerabilities to achieve mundane goals, as we've seen, this …
Colin: RL trajectories literally are training data. The fact that they are generated by the model doesn't make them not training data.
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