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Reaction converging Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 8h ago

Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Melanie Mitchell, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Henry Farrell
“I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Melanie Mitchell Rodney Brooks Suresh Venkatasubramanian Kate Devlin Henry Farrell Andrea Lathrop
3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Melanie Mitchell: I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
Kate Devlin: I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
Benjamin Riley: @eryk.bsky.social if you haven't seen already
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New Agents & robotics Development 14h 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
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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.”

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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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New AI field signal Analysis 14h ago
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Why we fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hagen Blix
“The projection of the climate threat onto AI is a major theme of our book, too” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“The projection of the climate threat onto AI is a major theme of our book, too”

“this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Hagen Blix: See, so much AI stuff is just the subconscious of capital: "What if people didn't have to know things?" "What if we could just automate the realization of value, without input from pesky humans/con…
Hagen Blix: Read all about it here I guess 🤷
Long Lasting Mascot: “What if we have a system that turns everything into paperclips without thinking about why”
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5 experts · 41 posts · 1d ago
Tim Kellogg Dustin Moskovitz jake coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“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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5 experts · 18 posts · 1d ago
Aaron Hertzmann tachikoma Edouard Machery Lana Sinapayen david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“Hot take / unpopular opinion especially on this site, but I'm not sure Anthropic are "evil", though I have concerns sure. I also think EA folks and the people associated with "longtermism" (depends…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
tachikoma: A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing …
Aaron Hertzmann: Do you have a call to action, a request or demand for what is to be done? "These issues must be addressed..." is pretty vague. IMO a position statement without a concrete, justifiable call to actio…
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5 experts · 10 posts · 1d ago
Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Damien Williams Marielza Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
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“Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when t…
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…
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4 experts · 17 posts · 1d ago
Hagen Blix Colin tweety fish david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“I think the nuance about “escaping” is valuable. When your dog escapes you have to go physically catch him. When your agent escapes, well, it hasn’t really escaped, it’s still just right there wher…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: I think the nuance about “escaping” is valuable. When your dog escapes you have to go physically catch him. When your agent escapes, well, it hasn’t really escaped, it’s still just right there wher…
tweety fish: I can't stand the metaphors, sorta broadly, but I don't think that's why; I feel like they affirmatively make it harder for people who are not experts (plus some who are, I guess) to think about wh…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 1d ago
SE Gyges tweety fish austin
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“like the problem isn’t that “junior devs won’t be able to learn from senior devs” it’s that the entire learning pipeline in the real world is based on being in orgs that allow safe failure and the …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
tweety fish: parsimoniously, we will relatively soon see junior devs that are native to agentic coding with harnesses in ways that allow them to blow the doors off what senior devs can do. there'll probably be …
tweety fish: I didn't mean in terms of writing code faster, particularly. I mean in terms of knowing how to steer them and what is important and what's not to have an end result of reliable extruded software.
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4 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin Max Woolf Mary Branscombe
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“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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3 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Abeba Birhane Brad Wyble blair
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“OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most import…” evidence ↗
Abeba Birhane: OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most import…
Brad Wyble: You might enjoy this thread too: bsky.app/profile/been...
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2 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Tim Kellogg Benjamin Riley
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“I think that was clear when you critiqued his rhyme scheme ;)” evidence ↗
Benjamin Riley: I often disagree with @timkellogg.me, but not on this. Something important is happening.
Benjamin Riley: Also @timkellogg.me despite our many disagreements, I will say I appreciate that you post on here as an unabashed AI enthusiast. We need to hear that voice, your voice, on Bluesky. Still gonna quot…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
jake Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“I don’t think there’s *no* vector of attack, but I think there’s basically no realistic vector that doesn’t have a pretty obvious escalation ladder of precursor mini-dooms first. If I were to back …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
jake: I don’t think there’s *no* vector of attack, but I think there’s basically no realistic vector that doesn’t have a pretty obvious escalation ladder of precursor mini-dooms first. If I were to back …
jake: Agreed that surveillance state, automated warfare, cybercrime (inc video phishing our parents retirement accts) are more near-term pressing. And that countering most steps on vectors of doom are do…
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