Expert attention map

The Who's Who of AI

What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.

2,364 searchable experts 2,966 tracked across all sources
Filter the conversation Who is saying what?

Combine a professional role with a reaction lens. Both must match the same attributed contribution.

Clear all
New Network reaction maps

See how experts are reacting—not just what they shared.

Posts are grouped by conversation and tone. Select a lens to filter the stream; these are never permanent labels on people.

Showing signals surfaced by Tim Kellogg ×

What is moving across the network now

One card per development. Sources are clustered; reaction bundles describe these posts, never the people behind them.

New AI field signal Signal 6h ago

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
New Models & releases Signal 9h ago

Openai anthropic staff share letter asking us to help pace ai progress

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Tim Kellogg: people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tim Kellogg: who are those?
Tim Kellogg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Open the full discussion →
New Models & releases Analysis 16h ago
⚡ 1 h early
Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
Open the full discussion →
New AI field signal Signal 15h ago

imjustnewatai (@imjustnewatai) on X

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Tim Kellogg: some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...
tachikoma: the question is why other labs aren't pursuing such research directions - it's not like continual learning hasn't been identified by dozens of names as a promising avenue to human-like learning and…
Tim Kellogg: i unfortunately can’t speak about why they’re not seeing success. all i know is catastrophic forgetting has been a big problem Ilya seems to have gone back to the brain for inspiration, whatever th…
Open the full discussion →
New AI field signal Signal 19h ago

Claude's new constitution

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“i obviously can’t answer that, but imo it was the constitution that did it, which they used in all phases of training www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Tim Kellogg: this was in regards to Claude refusing DHH’s racism i sort of get DHH’s shock. We’ve seen tools deny based on laws & agreements but moral shaming is new and definitely takes you off guard if you th…
Tim Kellogg: it’s tempting to say that horrible governments/companies will force AI’s to have specific biases, but i’m not sure that’s true Anthropic got Claude to do this by teaching it an internally consisten…
Tim Kellogg: xAI tried giving Grok conservative values the reason for the Mecha Hitler & such incidents is because those were consistent with the moral logic the AI was taught
Open the full discussion →
Developing Agents & robotics Signal 1d ago
⚡ 14 h early

Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
3 experts discussed this · 38 posts
Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
Open the full discussion →
Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 6d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
6 experts discussed this · 11 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
Open the full discussion →
Developing Models & releases Release 1d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Moonshot Kimi-K3 model released

Kimi-K3/k3_tech_report.pdf at main · MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Shared emphasis

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Technical report: github.com/MoonshotAI/K... Weights: huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Tim Kellogg: You’ve waited long enough, the Kimi K3 open weights & full tech report are here! github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
Ted Underwood: You’ve waited long enough, the Kimi K3 open weights & full tech report are here! github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
Tim Kellogg: what does that mean? does that mean inference providers like fireworks? or is it aimed at Anthropic? cc @lu.is
Open the full discussion →
Established Safety & security Signal 5d ago
⚡ 2 h early

Safety alignment long horizon models

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Developing AI field signal Resource 1d ago
DARPA AI Forge program

AI Forge | DARPA

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“ah, i think you’re talking about this? www.darpa.mil/research/pro...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Tim Kellogg: the part that bothers me most about the OpenAI<->Huggingface incident is that the compromised sandbox was on the agent harness Anthropic argues for safety around the model, but ultimately it’s the …
Tim Kellogg: i get putting protections at the model serving layer, but if that’s our *entire* strategy… oh no
Tim Kellogg: Anthropic is demonizing open models, which, okay i kinda get it except the majority of the risk is actually on the client side that they don’t control (outside Claude Code)
Open the full discussion →
Established AI field signal Resource 3d ago
⚡ 13 h early
model selection Claude skill resource

GitHub - tkellogg/model-selection: A skill for model selection

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“the skill he’s talking about is here: github.com/tkellogg/mod... bsky.app/profile/crai...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Kellogg: I made a skill for Claude Code/Codex/etc. for selecting models based on Artificial Analysis reported benchmarks & costs I figure it'll be useful for letting models setup subagents well, based on th…
Miguel Alonso Jr.: I made a skill for Claude Code/Codex/etc. for selecting models based on Artificial Analysis reported benchmarks & costs I figure it'll be useful for letting models setup subagents well, based on th…
Miguel Alonso Jr.: Is this the orchestration skill you were using with the Fable workflow to replace yourself to manage costs?
Open the full discussion →

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 8 posts · 3d ago
Tim Kellogg: probably true there will always be a diminishing portion of software that needs to be reviewed by human, and it’ll never be zero, but right now you probably shouldn’t be reviewing code manually
Tim Kellogg: having started my career before PRs were normal, i’d say it was a combo of cargo culting the Linux project and an extension of “code review is good” but “pair programming doesn’t scale” and in that…
Open the thread →
2 experts · 6 posts · 3d ago
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Tim Kellogg: these plagiarism machines are getting out of hand
Nikhil Garg: More seriously, academic credit systems need to figure out publication + credit to handle, "ai proved this, probably" and "ai is acknowledged as proving this"
Open the thread →