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Shared emphasis To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’ Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Policy & governance Analysis 2d ago
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radical intentionalists AI rules essay

To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tech Policy Press Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer VE, cybersocial occult investigator Rosamunde Van Brakel Stefanie Hane
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
Shared emphasis

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“A "radical intentionalist," writes Eryk Salvaggio, treats an AI model as a 'mind' to be interpreted rather than a product that was designed. It is "a strange and dangerous relationship for designers to have with a product they are literally designing," he w…”

3 experts discussed this · 7 posts
e.w. niedermeyer: at this point, my entire AI take is: save your "alignment," what I want is accountability
e.w. niedermeyer: the material differences between guns and AI models are pretty clear, and the obvious precedent here seems to be animals: if you trained an animal to bite (or raised a wild animal) and kept it insu…
Eryk Salvaggio: Oh, to be clear, I don't think LLMs or agentic systems operate "at random." I am using random-firing-guns to illustrate the concept of a mechanism that is out of human control, and how human accoun…
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Established Safety & security Development 11d ago
AI safety advocate tabloid personal expose

AI doomsayer's wild life with OnlyFans star includes birthday sex parties, extreme kinks and 'Slutcon'

4 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Renee DiResta SE Gyges VE, cybersocial occult investigator Doll

“NY Post comes for Aella because *some VCs* are mad that the vibes shifted away from them on AI safety last week. Badge of honor, really. They're grasping and chose the oldest smear strategy in the book. "You're either with us or with the sluts and wokes!" n…”

“The New York Post beat me to Nate Soares. nypost.com/2026/09/16/b...”

3 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Renee DiResta: NY Post comes for Aella because *some VCs* are mad that the vibes shifted away from them on AI safety last week. Badge of honor, really. They're grasping and chose the oldest smear strategy in the …
Renee DiResta: Ooh my first Adult Content label.
Luis Villa: The Sankey diagram party here yesterday was started by a very-not-a-VC person. There’s lots of people who would like the national media to understand the various overlapping cults and pathologies o…
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Established AI field signal Development 13d ago
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Sanders Bannon pro-human conference

Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Karl Bode Hagen Blix VE, cybersocial occult investigator Andrea Lathrop
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Karl Bode: hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this
Karl Bode: we had a whole three year crash course on this involving Matt Stoller and Josh Hawley please keep up
Karl Bode: just do the correct and popular thing and peel off Trump voters without attending an event with a bad faith fascist in a way that lends them credibility? It doesn't seem complicated
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Established AI business Development 7d ago
ChatGPT ad tracking revelation

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
VE, cybersocial occult investigator Dan Hon
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Dan Hon: www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...
Hypervisible : 😬
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ali Alkhatib: can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…
Ali Alkhatib: its usefulness as a framework, like all conceptual frameworks, is mediated to some extent (maybe entirely determined!) by its usefulness to people. if it continues to be useful, then its not a bad …
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4 experts · 45 posts · 2d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator tweety fish Nathalie Maréchal, PhD Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they thi…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: This also notably applies to the AI doomers. They are equally trying to immanentize their imagined eschaton; they just have a negatively stated emotional valence towards it.
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7 experts · 19 posts · 11d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tweety fish Pavel Phillip Carter Doll Matt Darling
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
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark VE, cybersocial occult investigator
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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5 experts · 7 posts · 3d ago
Luke Stark Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Luke Stark: Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: There's an old axiom that every billionaire ends up, sooner or later, with some harebrained scheme to reinvent education.
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4 experts · 14 posts · 13d ago
Erin Kissane Tim Carmody VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Erin Kissane: I feel like devs who find LLMs transformative in a good way would have a better time and get further with people if they took seriously the possibility that software engineering (which always invol…
Erin Kissane: Should that have gone to drafts for future consideration? 1000%, but tomorrow is too wild for me to be online so whatever.
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4 experts · 10 posts · 11d ago
Prof. Dr Beth Singler Chris Stokel-Walker VE, cybersocial occult investigator Jeffrey Vagle
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Prof. Dr Beth Singler: I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rational…
Prof. Dr Beth Singler: Agreed. Interviewed him for our BBC Radio 4 40 Years of The Terminator Doc to see whether it influenced current existential risk thinking. Was surprised when he denied he'd ever said we should be w…
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