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Multiple readings A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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New Safety & security Analysis 1h ago
Tao AI math misalignment essay

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Robin Hanson
“If rewarding AI mathematicians by the same metric that we have rewarded humans ones make math go badly, then we are probably rewarding the human ones badly. With good reward metrics, we shouldn't care who wins them. https://t.co/CO6Z9o3mcW” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Melanie Mitchell Nathan Lambert Eugene Vinitsky Justin Hendrix rat king 🐀 👑 Robin Hanson Dare Obasanjo David Marx +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“"...the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community."”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“If rewarding AI mathematicians by the same metric that we have rewarded humans ones make math go badly, then we are probably rewarding the human ones badly. With good reward metrics, we shouldn't care who wins them. https://t.co/CO6Z9o3mcW”

Primary source terrytao.wordpress.com ↗
New Agents & robotics Development 16h ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · LiveOverflow
“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel René Walter +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.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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Primary source rubyhack.ai ↗
New Compute & infrastructure Analysis 15h ago
LLMs cross exploit generation threshold

Automated Exploit Generation: LLMs Cross the Threshold

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“The genie is already out of the bottle on AI agents being capable of hacking websites. At this point, we are facing less of an abstract AI-safety problem and what looks more like corporate negligence.” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Michael Ekstrand Dare Obasanjo

“The genie is already out of the bottle on AI agents being capable of hacking websites. At this point, we are facing less of an abstract AI-safety problem and what looks more like corporate negligence.”

Primary source labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org ↗
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5 experts · 41 posts · 1d 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 · 4 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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5 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
joao Grace Colin coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“you are missing the point. The concern is not that it will cheat at chess; the concern is that it will commit genocide.” evidence ↗
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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4 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin Max Woolf Mary Branscombe
Matches Concern & critique
“The first one it was like whoopsies we hacked HuggingFace 🤗 but don’t worry they’re not mad about it, it’s kind of funny actually, here’s a joint blog about it 🍿🍿 But now it’s like ok yeah the agen…” evidence ↗
Colin: The labs must be starting to think all these cyberattacks are starting to not be cute anymore
Colin: The first one it was like whoopsies we hacked HuggingFace 🤗 but don’t worry they’re not mad about it, it’s kind of funny actually, here’s a joint blog about it 🍿🍿 But now it’s like ok yeah the agen…
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