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New AI field signal Signal 5h ago
⚡ 56 h early

An alien mind

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jakub Pachocki
“I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: https://t.co/FeIfWNe0UE” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
New AI field signal Signal 3h ago

Ai tech apocalypse silicon valley

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Gil Durán
“Stop me if you've heard this one before... Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Stop me if you've heard this one before... Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...”

“Maybe it's just because I'm catching up on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social but I really need to talk to someone about why these AI bosses -- many of whom felt they were feminized as "nerds" earlier in life but now rule the world -- now want to be Daddy to God. …”

Accelerating AI field signal Signal 8h ago

Why its tough for tech companies to keep ai out of trouble

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Dylan Freedman, Michael Zimmer
“As A.I. is rapidly advancing, companies are also seeing their bots go rogue and committing cyberattacks. It boils down to two issues researchers say we haven’t solved (nor necessarily know how to): safeguards and alignment. My latest with @sheeraf.bsky.soci…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
New AI field signal Development 2h ago
⚡ 10 h early
Meta AI optimism extinction song ad

Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
““Meta choosing this specific song where the context for human connection is the apocalypse seems either really ignorant or really insidious. IDK, maybe in that context it's genius… Hearing [Bowie’s] work used for AI just feels especially & specifically nonc…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

““Meta choosing this specific song where the context for human connection is the apocalypse seems either really ignorant or really insidious. IDK, maybe in that context it's genius… Hearing [Bowie’s] work used for AI just feels especially & specifically nonc…”

“Another ill-advised tech company AI ad just dropped:”

New Models & releases Signal 1h ago
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OpenAI Leans Toward Holding Up I.P.O. Until Next Year

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“OpenAI is considering postponing their IPO until next year after seeing the volatility of SpaceX (currently trading -5% below IPO price) and a concern it may not be able to hit it's expected $1T valuation. Given SpaceX has profitable businesses and OpenAI d…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Accelerating Policy & governance Signal 8h ago

Ai crime legal ikner chatgpt

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
““We know these agents have the capability to aid and abet harm. What we’re wrestling with now, like so many medieval judges pondering the inner lives of pigs, is how to parcel out accountability when they do.”” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

““We know these agents have the capability to aid and abet harm. What we’re wrestling with now, like so many medieval judges pondering the inner lives of pigs, is how to parcel out accountability when they do.””

New AI field signal Signal 4h ago

https://wapo.st/4dsGZld

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · nitasha tiku
“my story trying to help people understand & contextualize warnings about extinction risk from AI is on the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com hope you'll give a read t.co/dfpYz5iCH6” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“my story trying to help people understand & contextualize warnings about extinction risk from AI is on the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com hope you'll give a read t.co/dfpYz5iCH6”

New AI field signal Signal 7h 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
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 AI field signal Analysis 8h ago
⚡ 7 h early

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“@timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI: www.wired.com/story/one-of...” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 2 sources clustered

“@timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI: www.wired.com/story/one-of...”

“"if you’re not worried about police brutality, or floods, or warfare—things that can actually kill you—then you can obsess over the machine-god." I said what I said. https://t.co/B3WskcMaTL”

New AI field signal Signal 7h ago

ams.org

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor
“Not to put too fine a point on it but remember in Jan 2025 when the AMS was like JMM will have a theme for the first time ever and the theme is AI, yay, ps the program has no decision of ethical concerns etc? www.ams.org/about-us/ai-...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Not to put too fine a point on it but remember in Jan 2025 when the AMS was like JMM will have a theme for the first time ever and the theme is AI, yay, ps the program has no decision of ethical concerns etc? www.ams.org/about-us/ai-...”

New Models & releases Development 7h ago
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Anthropic AI misuse September report

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

15 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 6 attributable expert contributions · Jason Koebler, Tim Kellogg, Cameron
“will have an article about ai agents some point next week but where i'm at rn is we are seeing AI get access to accounts/systems/the internet en masse. as directed by humans, that is gonna cause big problems anthropic threat report yesterday was interesting…” evidence ↗
15 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 5 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

5 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“will have an article about ai agents some point next week but where i'm at rn is we are seeing AI get access to accounts/systems/the internet en masse. as directed by humans, that is gonna cause big problems anthropic threat report yesterday was interesting…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Thomson Reuters announced it is moving off Claude to Alibaba's Qwen to cut costs. From today's Anthropic report: Alibaba extracted 151M+ Claude exchanges to help train Qwen. TR now deploys Westlaw on a vast trove of stolen US IP. @AnthropicAI's report: http…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@kotekjedi_ml Here Ant's report https://t.co/22vHruWVqH And the paper from @kotekjedi_ml @DavidSchmotz @iliaishacked https://t.co/wuCpNZaQ0d”

New Compute & infrastructure Analysis 13h 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

“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.”

New Safety & security Analysis 7h ago
Tao AI math misalignment essay

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

9 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 ↗
9 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
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”

New Compute & infrastructure Signal 7h ago

Anthropic invests $50 billion in American AI infrastructure

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · blair
“If Dario Amodei is truly concerned about slowing AI development, one of the easiest ways to do that would be by pausing or scaling back his $50 billion investment in AI data centers www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“If Dario Amodei is truly concerned about slowing AI development, one of the easiest ways to do that would be by pausing or scaling back his $50 billion investment in AI data centers www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...”

New Models & releases Signal 7h ago

Openai public ipo delay sam altman

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sara Fischer
“OpenAI delaying IPO amid AI safety concerns, Sam Altman says https://t.co/sNhCMDXIHi” evidence ↗
1 expert 0 communities 1 sources clustered

“OpenAI delaying IPO amid AI safety concerns, Sam Altman says https://t.co/sNhCMDXIHi”

New AI field signal Signal 6h ago

Healthcare AI needs humans | Microsoft's Peter Lee & Seattle Children's Chris Longhurst

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Chrissy Farr
“The clinical AI risk that gets discussed is the model being wrong. @peteratmsr is more worried about something else: people using AI to avoid personal accountability for decisions they'd otherwise have to own. Full episode on Lifers this week: Spotify: http…” evidence ↗
1 expert 0 communities 1 sources clustered

“The clinical AI risk that gets discussed is the model being wrong. @peteratmsr is more worried about something else: people using AI to avoid personal accountability for decisions they'd otherwise have to own. Full episode on Lifers this week: Spotify: http…”

New Policy & governance Signal 6h ago

Tax Policy Options to Promote Employment and Stabilize Revenue in the AI Age

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · RAND Corporation
“"Labor earnings taxes are simultaneously the largest [federal] revenue source and the most directly threatened by AI displacement." https://bit.ly/3TmRSOM” evidence ↗
1 expert 0 communities 1 sources clustered

“"Labor earnings taxes are simultaneously the largest [federal] revenue source and the most directly threatened by AI displacement." https://bit.ly/3TmRSOM”

New AI field signal Analysis 13h ago
⚡ 474 h early
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

“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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What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

5 experts · 41 posts · 1d ago
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
Matches Concern & critique
“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
Matches Concern & critique
“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
Matches Concern & critique
“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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