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Multiple readings The System From Nowhere Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Putting Humanities in the Loop: Lauren M. E. Goodlad on AI and Language in the Era of "Large Language Models" Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Signal 21h ago

Openai hugging face hacking

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
“"You’re probably silently yelling at me for anthropomorphizing these systems." Not silently. Roose's panic appears next to a story about incomplete information and what we still don't know. Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. www…” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ryan Moulton Kate Klonick Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Neil Turkewitz

“"You’re probably silently yelling at me for anthropomorphizing these systems." Not silently. Roose's panic appears next to a story about incomplete information and what we still don't know. Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. www…”

“A scorching new entry into the AI Anthropomorphic Olympics. Roose refers to AI bots as: “worried about getting caught cheating; appearing to understand that what they were doing was wrong; fearful; temporarily frozen in a moment of self-doubt; turning to cr…”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 3d ago
⚡ 6 h early
system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no…”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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Primary source mail.cyberneticforests.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 6d ago
⚡ 398 h early

Putting Humanities in the Loop: Lauren M. E. Goodlad on AI and Language in the Era of "Large Language Models"

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue, Neil Turkewitz
“That is a game I play every day of my life as the editor of Critical AI. But honestly, there is nothing I would change due to some recent innovation in LLMs. I talk about this in the interview w/ UC Press www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Marielza Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Neil Turkewitz
Primary source ucpress.edu ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Who cares if AI is conscious–it’s basically alive

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“Much Ado About Consciousness/Nothing “WhenAI models express behavior that astonishes the scientists who created them, it isn’t consciousness that should be the top concern—it’s the inability of those scientists to control them, & the willingness of their bo…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Neil Turkewitz

“Much Ado About Consciousness/Nothing “WhenAI models express behavior that astonishes the scientists who created them, it isn’t consciousness that should be the top concern—it’s the inability of those scientists to control them, & the willingness of their bo…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

links.wired.com

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“I agree w/ @stevenlevy.bsky.social that a focus on AI sentience may miss the point that we should care more about what they do than why they do it. Harm doesn’t care about motives. Alas, he also writes: “AI models often lie about what they’re thinking. (Jus…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Neil Turkewitz

“I agree w/ @stevenlevy.bsky.social that a focus on AI sentience may miss the point that we should care more about what they do than why they do it. Harm doesn’t care about motives. Alas, he also writes: “AI models often lie about what they’re thinking. (Jus…”

Primary source links.wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

On Radical Preservation | The Point Magazine

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““If we fail to insist that certain kinds of decisions—whether in personal, political or professional contexts—must come from human beings, words like fraud, authenticity and deliberation will cease to mean anything we might recognize today.” thepointmag.com…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz

““If we fail to insist that certain kinds of decisions—whether in personal, political or professional contexts—must come from human beings, words like fraud, authenticity and deliberation will cease to mean anything we might recognize today.” thepointmag.com…”

““The ‘radical’ task before us is not to hope that something resembling our concepts & practices will reemerge in the distant future; it is to do whatever remains in our power to preserve them in the present.” A lovely essay re: what we can learn from the Cr…”

Primary source thepointmag.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Signal 4d ago

The new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“This by @garymarcus.bsky.social closely tracks my own views. And huge 🙏🏽 to @angierasmussen.bsky.social for so clearly articulating the importance of addressing non-theoretical AI harms. People love to talk about dramatic existential risks & ignore present,…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Neil Turkewitz

“This by @garymarcus.bsky.social closely tracks my own views. And huge 🙏🏽 to @angierasmussen.bsky.social for so clearly articulating the importance of addressing non-theoretical AI harms. People love to talk about dramatic existential risks & ignore present,…”

Primary source garymarcus.substack.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
US G20 AI copyright push

US urges G20 countries to allow AI training on creators' work

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“IRONY ALERT “Huang urged the G20 to avoid writing regulations for AI that focus on ‘theoretical harms,’ & instead develop rules governing real-world problems connected to the technology.” “Real-world problems” like unauthorized use of creative works to trai…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Neil Turkewitz

“IRONY ALERT “Huang urged the G20 to avoid writing regulations for AI that focus on ‘theoretical harms,’ & instead develop rules governing real-world problems connected to the technology.” “Real-world problems” like unauthorized use of creative works to trai…”

Primary source channelnewsasia.com ↗