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Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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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.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · LiveOverflow
“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5” evidence ↗
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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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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7 experts · 19 posts · 5d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tweety fish Pavel Phillip Carter Doll Matt Darling
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“I might have an East Coast biased sample!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Matt Darling: This doesn't actually show a connection with AI folks, right? As an outside to the dynamics, I can't tell if it's actually true or something people say because it's funny/loosely connected to San F…
Matt Darling: I know folks in AI who are not Very Online and wouldn't understand the reference. I have no idea how to ascertain the relative size of the groups!
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4 experts · 15 posts · 3d ago
Hypervisible e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish Pavel
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“instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
tweety fish: this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing usefu…
tweety fish: instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…
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3 experts · 7 posts · 2d ago
Matthew Kirschenbaum VE, cybersocial occult investigator Pavel
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“An interesting thing about AI, that we've classified under everything from hallucinations, to slop, psychosis, and unaccountability, is that it is creating a virtual world of appearances without co…” evidence ↗
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: An interesting thing about AI, that we've classified under everything from hallucinations, to slop, psychosis, and unaccountability, is that it is creating a virtual world of appearances without co…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Whether it is falsified citations and social research based off of synthetic stand-ins, to militaries misacting on generated information, to people becoming lost in make-believe worlds and ending t…
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