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Reaction converging Models Don't Go Rogue Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Reaction converging IN THE WEIGHTS Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions Reaction converging Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Developing Safety & security Analysis 2d ago
models don't go rogue essay

Models Don't Go Rogue

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Benjamin Riley, Elke Schwarz, René Walter
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…” evidence ↗
8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Benjamin Riley Elke Schwarz René Walter
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”

5 experts discussed this · 20 posts
Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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Primary source mail.cyberneticforests.com ↗
Established AI research Resource 18d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.” evidence ↗
12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Sasha Costanza-Chock Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich +4
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.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Primary source intheweights.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 3d 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

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Tim Kellogg, Mél Hogan / The Data Fix, René Walter
“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/…” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

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 Safety & security Signal 20d ago
⚡ 4 h early

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · René Walter, Andrea Lathrop
“The AI-Hacking-Race is on, as if OAI/Anthropic are begging to be under gov control. While the incident is real, it's not like a "model went rogue" or anythong, it did what it was promptef to do, but incompetent redteaming fucked it up. This is from Anzhtopi…” evidence ↗
12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Grace Dare Obasanjo Vincent Conitzer Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Elie René Walter Tim Duffy +4
2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
Tim Duffy: Compared to the OpenAI one these are maybe less evidence of misalignment, since the models were wrongly given internet access.
Grace: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
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12 experts · 115 posts · 11h ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
Matches Concern & critique
“there are a lot of very serious concerns about LLMs, but "they might not be reliable at math" is one folks should bury and move on from quickly” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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3 experts · 23 posts · 12h ago
Benjamin Riley Colin René Walter
Matches Concern & critique
“They could have made it so it goes “great question, Colin” before answering and I think a lot more people would have gotten WolframAlpha psychosis” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Huh? I don’t think either of these is true. I don’t think LLMs are indistinguishable from sentient things, and I also never thought sentience was a prerequisite for code completion or theorem provi…
Colin: I don’t think sentient beings have a “regenerate response” button. I don’t think their states are fully determined by a handful of tokens. They live in the world and navigate space and time like th…
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2 experts · 13 posts · 11h ago
Pwnallthethings René Walter
Matches Concern & critique
“roon on the other site recently wrote that it's not clear how useful the non-anthropomorphical way to describe LLMs is if the behavior LLMs show is itself anthropomorphic. How useful, or harmful, i…” evidence ↗
René Walter: What is the difference between "reasoning" and "reasoning-mimicry"? I'm not sure if that difference exists in a thing that sends language objects back and forth.
René Walter: roon on the other site recently wrote that it's not clear how useful the non-anthropomorphical way to describe LLMs is if the behavior LLMs show is itself anthropomorphic. How useful, or harmful, i…
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2 experts · 21 posts · 10d ago
Matthew Kirschenbaum René Walter
Matches Concern & critique
“The quasi-communication of AI agents is more like data distribution or routing via natural language which enforces an anthropomorphic illusion by hijacking our easily exploitable intentional stance.” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
René Walter: Are interpolatable archives plugged into each other communicating?
René Walter: True communication happens intersubjectively, and AI agents are not subjects with intent. There must be an "I" transmitting an internal reality to a "You". So, what are thousands of AI agents doing…
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