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Multiple readings Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Reaction converging Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 9h ago

AI Referee Paper Leaderboard

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick

“This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net”

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New AI field signal Resource 13h ago
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Pew Research AI public attitudes survey

2. Concern and excitement about AI

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Ted Underwood

“not denying that we worship false gods — but to the extent this implies a comparative hypothesis: the US is perhaps the country where concern about AI most strongly outweighs excitement; we are an outlier in the other direction www.pewresearch.org/global/20…”

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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.

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Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 thebes Fran Litterio +2
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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 Models & releases Research 6d ago
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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.

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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 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
2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
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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Established AI business Development 6d ago
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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.

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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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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

AI Committee Final Report Aug

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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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Debates gaining attention

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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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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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