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Multiple readings Report – AI and Education Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions +3 more reaction maps further down
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 7d ago
⚡ 39 h early
MIT AI education report published

Report – AI and Education

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Grace Lindsay Damien Williams Eileen Clancy 🧿 Nicole Hennig Elizabeth Bonawitz Derek Willis +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“AI and Education- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ #AI #education (very comprehensive & foundational)”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Ted Underwood: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Derek Willis: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Ted Underwood: The world changing is mainly a problem for students. It also changes our ability to evaluate students — but if that’s the primary/sole focus of our conversation, we’ve forgotten the mission.
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Developing Agents & robotics Development 1d ago
OpenAI agent message board discovered

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 thebes Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Yes we know for sure; independent evidence attached collusion.wiki But also, it should not be at all surprising: if you work with agents, it’s 100% about them leaving messages for each other, and for you, in English. Managing that is a regular workday for m…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is …”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“So... other swarms of OpenAI agents in training allegedly found a way to get write access to at least one and possibly many wikis to establish message boards to cheat on other training tasks? collusion.wiki news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956...”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated…
SE Gyges: fluid dynamics is about the correct metaphor, yes. if you are having to model high order terms precisely you're losing and your design needs fundamental rework
Arseny Khakhalin: That's a kinda terrifying thought haha :) I guess it's about time to unplug for the weekend and read about ragnarök and vacuum decay :)
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Established NLP & language Analysis 7d ago
⚡ 504 h early
Naomi Saphra uncanny AI precipice essay

Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Naomi Saphra Ted Underwood Clément Canonne Ryan Moulton
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncann…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“So many good points in this post by @nsaphra.bsky.social: only quoting a couple, to encourage you to read the others. "My colleagues and students adopt the writing quirks they read throughout the day, and their own writing becomes more like an LLM’s." nsaph…”

4 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Naomi Saphra: I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulation…
Ted Underwood: I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulation…
Naomi Saphra: I'm interested to know what signatures felt that way to you. For what it's worth, automated tools disagree with your intuition. I wonder if the unsettling tone, which was deliberate because it expr…
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Established AI field signal Resource 10d ago
⚡ 87 h early
arxiv preprint archive resource

arXiv.org e-Print archive

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Zachary Lipton Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Alison Gopnik Ben Schmidt Mandana Samiei Federico Pianzola
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.

“I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated reading list that I no longer have to keep in my browser like an…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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Established Models & releases Release 15d ago
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · Hugging Face

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Julien Chaumond Evangelos Kazakos Chubby Isaiah Bishop austin

“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Tim Kellogg: Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Do they have a paired speculative decoding model for max performance?
Tim Kellogg: i don’t see an official one, it’s also not even an MoE (so seems like there should be an official draft model)
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
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Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg
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tachikoma: i think Venus could be deconstructed by Von Neumann probes and this would only be passing news for most people, overshadowed by GTA 6 release or celebrity news
tachikoma: it sorta depends on how fast it happens, what the material is used for, and whether the machines can be traced back to us or not
tachikoma: yeah that would be a not uncommon take
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established Models & releases Analysis 19d ago
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Qwen3 overthinking analysis

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ted Underwood Simon Willison austegard.com

“@omt66 I got a fantastic pelican out of that one! https://t.co/iFMWjc7SvG”

“Simon tried it out as well: simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/... The speed (or lack thereof) would make me avoid it on my M5, but wonder how it would run on an RTX 5090”

2 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Simon Willison: Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/...
Simon Willison: Fun bonus: I set Pi up with Qwen 3.8 27B and had it build a script for transforming its own .jsonl transcripts to Markdown... which it did! Here's the transcript of it building the tool I then used…
Simon Willison: My conclusions from the end of the post
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

AI Committee Final Report Aug

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood

“Either the authors of the MIT report are rhetorical geniuses — to get praise from all quarters — or there’s actually a fair amount of agreement about the path forward in higher ed. Maybe a little of both.”

3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Ted Underwood: Either the authors of the MIT report are rhetorical geniuses — to get praise from all quarters — or there’s actually a fair amount of agreement about the path forward in higher ed. Maybe a little o…
Ted Underwood: I do think this is the main secret. There’s a lot of paralysis, so just saying “okay this is a big deal — we’re not all going to agree — but we do all have to respond” is a huge step and can produc…
Ted Underwood: I think a little of the rhetorical brilliance is that they get a bit vague and touch the volume pedal softly at certain moments
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Established Models & releases Research 6d ago
⚡ 17 h early
LLM story diversity diagnosis paper

Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood David Mimno Eryk Salvaggio Grace Sil Hamilton
How the network is reacting 5 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

5 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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Established AI business Development 6d ago
⚡ 5 h early
English professor Illinois named AI visionary

Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood

“I'm not sure if it was decisive, but this time around I did throw this link into the hat for manual review :) www.businessinsider.com/ted-underwoo...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: Verified as a "scientist." All is forgiven, Claude.
Nick Seaver: what ended up solving the demarcation problem for them?
Ted Underwood: I'm not sure if it was decisive, but this time around I did throw this link into the hat for manual review :) www.businessinsider.com/ted-underwoo...
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5 experts · 67 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood jake Shriram Krishnamurthi Arseny Khakhalin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: The recent popularity of the move to blame AI firms for ineffective *marketing* is mostly: a) a lot of people now realize they were wrong to spend 3 yrs insisting the tech was useless + b) “I was w…
Ted Underwood: A blunter way to explain 3 years of controversy: these products were and are genuinely problematic. Making hard problems easier is not useless. But it has very awkward effects on education and will…
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6 experts · 23 posts · 11d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings tachikoma B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) brennan
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: People who know about game design: Do you think open-world procedural narrative on the fly is bottlenecked by hardware, or is it a situation where players just don’t in practice want the openness t…
Ted Underwood: Or are we already building that? I am kind of gaming illiterate beyond Sim City, Civ, and hazy memories of Bioshock.
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4 experts · 22 posts · 2d ago
Ted Underwood John Warner Jane Rosenzweig Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: It’s important to me that my writing is *my* voice—warts and all. But I’m also not sure you can build a research discipline where the chief difference between an A paper and a C paper is “does this…
Ted Underwood: So I think a lot of debates about “whether to allow AI in writing classes” are fighting over the wrong part. We should be talking about how the nature of research in various disciplines can expand …
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4 experts · 39 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg brennan Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: my brother sent me this CAD model. i have no idea what it is, looks cool i guess. he said it took Opus 5 about 90 minutes to produce it. While there are errors, it would’ve taken a human engineer a…
Tim Kellogg: how do you know? you know what it is, with all the details he needs?
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5 experts · 17 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood Matthew Kirschenbaum Laura K. Nelson Andrea Lathrop D. Hicks
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ted Underwood: I think it is possible to have this cake while eating it, thus: a) LLM text is often cogent and well-written. It is clearer and more concise than 99% of human text. (I used to teach writing.) b) Wh…
Ted Underwood: I do not want to read an email that the sender didn't write, or a blog post that they commissioned from model X--even if in my own work I find value in that same model. My rejection is not a judgem…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: there’s a higher-than-you’d-think possibility that this is actually a leak and not a prediction (pretty sure Andrew only bets when the dice are biased in his favor)
Tim Kellogg: uh, i don’t think it’s as open as you’re thinking. pretty sure the IPO will happen before christmas, maybe within a month
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3 experts · 17 posts · 2d ago
Ted Underwood Joshua Grochow Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: LLMs are going to fundamentally change what scholarship is. Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career. Now much of that can be offloaded, leaving scholars the tasks of understanding,…
Joshua Grochow: Re "Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career." Even "back then" (i.e. last year? this year?) you still had to pump out true propositions *that other people were interested in*. What…
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4 experts · 13 posts · 9d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Ryan Moulton Alex Gude
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Ryan Moulton: Paying for internet content without putting a paywall in front of it is still, 40 years later, the central problem with the internet that remains unsolved.
Ryan Moulton: ~All media are non-rivalrous. There is no physical or technical reason to ever restrict access to any of it, except that we don't otherwise have any means to pay the creator.
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4 experts · 15 posts · 13d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Miguel Alonso Jr. jake
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Tim Kellogg: i’ve noticed with Sol on high or xhigh, if you give it a task that doesn’t require intelligence, it will turn it into a task that requires intelligence it’s honestly a really good idea to keep all …
Tim Kellogg: pretty sure i’ve seen the same thing with Terra/xhigh, i don’t think luna/xhigh will do it though symptom: a very easy task takes 2 hours
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4 experts · 9 posts · 4d ago
Ted Underwood Mark J. Nelson Singularity's Bounty e/cc Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: I think this must be a really bad time to be a college student. So much uncertainty in the future, and so much hostility and confusion around AI use, AI witch hunts It would be like going to cookin…
Ted Underwood: At most places students will have no difficulty finding courses that allow or indeed encourage AI use on advanced projects The profs who are most vocal On Here are those who experience it as a prob…
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