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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents Research & technical analysis · 7 attributable reactions +4 more reaction maps further down
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 4d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
23 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Damien Williams Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +15
6 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Models & releases Analysis 4d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Amodei pace AI frontier essay

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

16 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Will Oremus, David Kaye, Jane Rosenzweig
“the thing that's being criticized here is literally a call for regulation and restraint darioamodei.com/post/we-must...” evidence ↗
16 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht Ethan Mollick Will Oremus Justin Hendrix Tim Kellogg Kate Klonick rat king 🐀 👑 Kevin A. Bryan +8
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“the thing that's being criticized here is literally a call for regulation and restraint darioamodei.com/post/we-must...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“https://t.co/Ay1GZ7QBV5 (btw @ErikHovenkamp - see the final footnote: "1 With government mediation or waivers of antitrust restrictions.")”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Tim Kellogg: Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
Dustin Moskovitz: knight ajeya you cowards
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Primary source darioamodei.com ↗
Established Safety & security Signal 12d ago
⚡ 2 h early

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Colin
“I find this comes out a lot in Anthropic’s most recent write up. Their focus is bizarrely fixated on what Claude chose to do, that Claude carried out this attack despite information that the “simulation” was actually real. They basically say “Claude should …” evidence ↗
14 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Alexander Doria Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Andrew Arruda Rohan Paul Grace +6
4 experts discussed this · 15 posts
tweety fish: their goal is to have "an intelligence" which is "aligned" to doing things that are prosocial. They don't want to put in rules that STOP it from doing things: they see it fundamentally teleological…
tweety fish: one of the things I appreciate about this thread is that I don't think you can really understand the infosec stuff without understanding the ideological commitments the people making these have; li…
Ben Recht: yeah, now we're cooking...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago
⚡ 7 h early

Navier stokes solution

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
“The same day the OECD publishes alarming PISA test results for kids around the world steeply declining in cognitive tests, OpenAI announces this feat. Is it Poe poetry? Coincidence? Tragicomedy? It’s something for sure. openai.com/index/navier...” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: It seems to me that where we stand is OpenAI is sitting on a 100 page PDF that claims to have solved (a version of) the Navier-Stokes problem and no person in the world knows if it's correct or not.
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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Primary source openai.com ↗
New Agents & robotics Development 23h 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

13 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 ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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: 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: 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: The US and Chinese governments don't want to stop their labs advancement because they want to be the leader in AI. So no one actually has any control of this right now. It's going to take multiple …
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Primary source metr.org ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago
⚡ 19 h early

cims.nyu.edu

19 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Emad, Tim Kellogg
“Wow, Navier-Stokes drama This statement is worth reading in full from Tristan Buckmaster discussing his work with @__alpoge__ and OpenAI’s upcoming Condition C/D result (!) Crazy https://t.co/EnCVLyjgEZ https://t.co/ZLqBagNNcX https://t.co/3zFFth8uYd” evidence ↗
19 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Emily M. Bender Emad Gary Marcus Alondra Nelson Timnit Gebru Clément Canonne Ramon Astudillo +11
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Kashmir Hill: Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
Alondra Nelson: Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
Alondra Nelson: Indeed!
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Primary source cims.nyu.edu ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago
⚡ 8 h early

Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Mark Riedl, Tim Kellogg
“METR vibe-coded a website and expose an API key that gave an attacker access to $600k worth of compute. But don't worry, METR has been named by Dario Amodei as one of the organizations that is going to audit AI safety at Anthropic. thehackernews.com/2026/09…” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Tim Kellogg Rafael M Batista
3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Tim Kellogg: METR, the AI Safety & Eval firm, experienced a breach in which attackers stole $600k worth of API credits thehackernews.com/2026/09/atta...
Sung Kim: Isn't that kind of expected. I mean, they're just AI researchers, who probably feels additional security layers are inconvenient.
Tim Kellogg: yeah, a lot odd people saw this and assumed METR is cyber security
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Primary source thehackernews.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 11d ago
⚡ 40 h early

Hackers used anthropics claude to break into openai b40ba883

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“Two weeks after the Huggingface incident, attackers broke into OpenAI’s internal systems using Opus 5 and gained write access to their Git repos www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Gilles Louppe Vincent Conitzer Andrew Curran

“Two weeks after the Huggingface incident, attackers broke into OpenAI’s internal systems using Opus 5 and gained write access to their Git repos www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...”

“At this point just about every headline of the form "[noun] used [noun] to hack [noun]" is plausible. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Vincent Conitzer: At this point just about every headline of the form "[noun] used [noun] to hack [noun]" is plausible. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...
Mark Riedl: I've already put that in my fake news bot @brakingainews.bsky.social Literally: "#redteamers# used #aimodel# to #hackverb# #company#"
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Primary source wsj.com ↗
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8 experts · 57 posts · 1d ago
Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tachikoma Doll Jed Brown apenwarr.ca
Matches Concern & critique
“So there's a sort of survivorship bias. There are still lots of "jobs", but they go to the people who are still alive & in the job market after the last cohort gets gutted. The artists whose work i…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
apenwarr.ca: So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
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8 experts · 33 posts · 14d ago
Mark Riedl Jeffrey P. Bigham Tim Kellogg Michael Ekstrand David Picard Lionel Jonathan Stray Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Concern & critique
“Harnesses are lightweight. But the harness needs to call back to its model. It hasn’t really escaped then. One knows exactly where the model is and shut it down the harness or the model or block th…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
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7 experts · 28 posts · 19d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath Jack Stilgoe Colin John David Pressman nearestnabors.com
Matches Concern & critique
“keep in mind you’re experiencing selection bias — everyone you talked to already left the country” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Tim Kellogg: 8 very interesting plots regarding AI sentiment
Tim Kellogg: tbc these are opinions, and while it is a fact that someone had an opinion, an opinion doesn’t necessarily predict the future, even at scale
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6 experts · 27 posts · 19d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Miguel Alonso Jr. James Tauber jake Isaiah Bishop
Matches Concern & critique
“how? that’s ridiculous. the agent apocalypse will never happen at that rate” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Tim Kellogg: my experience using Astra on real work hasn’t been great it’s certainly capable, i just have a hard time convincing it to do the valuable part of the work definitely different from Sol
Isaiah Bishop: I do wonder if theres some issues where the RL environment is really good at replicating one off projects
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5 experts · 41 posts · 17d ago
Tim Kellogg Dustin Moskovitz jake coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Matches Concern & critique
“i’m not confident that you can read it that way, because the labs are simultaneously reporting increased risk while also reportedly down-training or content filtering in those areas so we’re effect…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: perspective. i’m not sure if i agree or disagree. but he’s thought about it, so..
jake: yeah, and @david-p-reichert.bsky.social thinks about it more than I do, professionally, so probably listen to him more than I (I do still wish The Professionals published lists of various guestimat…
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4 experts · 11 posts · 20d ago
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Rafael Pinto Michiel Bontenbal
Matches Concern & critique
“AI researcher: “this stuff is dangerous, maybe we should slow down” linguist who frequently complains of people disrespecting her credentials: “if you knew a single thing about AI you’d know this i…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Tim Kellogg: AI researcher: “this stuff is dangerous, maybe we should slow down” linguist who frequently complains of people disrespecting her credentials: “if you knew a single thing about AI you’d know this i…
Tim Kellogg: those credentials?
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4 experts · 8 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg jake tweety fish
Matches Concern & critique
“If we want an AI policy that defends democracy, let's look at the actual full range of threats to democracy right now — including oligarchic power and the centralization of control over media, issu…” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: <reading dario amodei> "prudent pacing" mmm-hmm, "embedded evaluators" ... ❤️, makes sense, "I agree with Secretary Bessent" 👀 "it's helpful for the US govt to mediate" 🤢 "the rest of my plan is ab…
Ted Underwood: This post is escaping containment so I'd best add an FAQ section: • do agree that the USG is still preferable to the CCP • don't oppose any/all USG involvement • do resist building AI policy around…
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2 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
Tim Kellogg Arseny Khakhalin
Matches Concern & critique
“timing the models? people keep on doing this, but it’s such a crazy idea that this gives you any useful information at all like you could just change the batch size and suddenly “it’s half the size…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Tim Kellogg: seems likely that Sol-6 is a much smaller model than Sol-5.6 also seems likely that Opus-5.5 is smaller (a lot?) than Opus-5 i think labs are finding ways to replicate a lot of that big model feel …
Tim Kellogg: we don’t. i’m just basing it on price drops. Which, that doesn’t mean anything per se other than something got more efficient (at scale) there’s also word that OpenAI is very short on compute, and …
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4 experts · 6 posts · 10d ago
Tim Kellogg jake Marco Z mackuba.eu
Matches Concern & critique
“but point 1 is the *extremely primary* focus of all of the SF AI Safety folks. Points 2, 3, 4 are all super super important, they are what *I* worry about, and are completely overshadowed by point …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: yeah, i got like five posts in and thought to myself, “what the living fuck am i reading?”
jake: but point 1 is the *extremely primary* focus of all of the SF AI Safety folks. Points 2, 3, 4 are all super super important, they are what *I* worry about, and are completely overshadowed by point …
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3 experts · 9 posts · 17d ago
Tim Kellogg David Thiel Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Matches Concern & critique
“but at the same time, it’s causing a massive amount of change, and simply navigating that change is a lot to handle there’s the prospect of x-risk as well, debatable how significant it is, but it’s…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Tim Kellogg: but at the same time, it’s causing a massive amount of change, and simply navigating that change is a lot to handle there’s the prospect of x-risk as well, debatable how significant it is, but it’s…
Tim Kellogg: i see a ton of upsides to AI especially in biology & climate science, problems dominated by complexity thus far, in software engineering, AI hasn’t killed jobs, but rather changed the work into som…
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