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Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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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 Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai” 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”

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

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

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“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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5 experts · 39 posts · 1d ago
Ed Zitron SE Gyges Doll Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 mackuba.eu
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“i think you can just show her the original diagram to explain the joke but this might raise an infinite recursion of more questions about what the fuck, which must be answered with "man, just, it g…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: trying to deduce why one would quit a good job at anthropic
SE Gyges: what her boyfriend is up to today. they really do get around
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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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“What does “AI” as a risk mean? Is that a dumb question? I just don’t understand what AI risk means independent of a specific extinction mechanism.” 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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“I do think that this article is a good representation of some typical thinking in this world. How exactly will AI kill us all? Well, maybe a virus, or some sort of hacking spree. Maybe something el…” 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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“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…” 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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4 experts · 17 posts · 1d ago
Hagen Blix Colin tweety fish david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“This! The policies in question aren't just about this one particular incident. And Mitchell writes "inappropriate metaphors [...] can lead to ill-informed decisions about how to fix problems or set…” 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 · 19 posts · 1d ago
Hagen Blix Daniel Hutchinson Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“What did the working classes write? In their newspapers, they called it “a tyrant power and a curse to those who work in conjunction with it,” and “our enemy […], the servant of the rich man.”” evidence ↗
Hagen Blix: re: AI extinction (from Why We Fear AI) It turns out that looking first at an earlier transition is strikingly illuminating about many properties of the current historic moment. That transition, wi…
Hagen Blix: When they were describing that technology, people spoke of "an intelligent being, devoted to our services," and even "a being […] of supernatural might" that 'stands as if it had life and breath in…
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3 experts · 15 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Andrea Lathrop Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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““Whether we believe extinction is imminent? Not the point right now. What’s important is the hypocrisy and blindness of people I went to college with and didn’t like.”” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: US discourse about AI will get smarter within months after China is widely said to take the lead. Right now, it’s paralyzed by internal sibling rivalry between acad/journalism and SV: witness ppl n…
Ted Underwood: “Whether we believe extinction is imminent? Not the point right now. What’s important is the hypocrisy and blindness of people I went to college with and didn’t like.”
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2 experts · 16 posts · 1d ago
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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“Even stronger: there is at present no reason to believe "AI" can even functionally approach anything close to human-level cognition before the sun dies out. Can it fool us? Yes! But it isn't anythi…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Iris van Rooij: Even stronger: there is at present no reason to believe "AI" can even functionally approach anything close to human-level cognition before the sun dies out. Can it fool us? Yes! But it isn't anythi…
Olivia Guest: Even stronger: there is at present no reason to believe "AI" can even functionally approach anything close to human-level cognition before the sun dies out. Can it fool us? Yes! But it isn't anythi…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
Berna Devezer tweety fish
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“I used to complain that if I put three questions in an email, my advisor would only answer the first one. I sure miss that now. Because the amount of information casual LLM-users expect you to proc…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Berna Devezer: Totally vibing here, but hope we'll soon get collectively fed up with llm-speak and refuse to entertain it. Getting impossible to seriously engage with extensive text without an underlying thought …
Berna Devezer: Engaging with a colleague, with whom you mostly communicate via email, becomes a chore when they only ever share pure slop. I'd rather fill out paperwork than actually spend gray matter and time on…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
John Warner Jane Rosenzweig
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“I have had several of these experiences where I was forced to go through a whole series of questions with the chatbot and then transferred to a human where I had to do it again, which is of course …” evidence ↗
John Warner: Dealt with two "digital assistants" over the phone today (HVAC & dentist) and I will admit that the process was reasonably efficient, but I also hated it and the experiences put me on edge. They an…
John Warner: One business is "open" the other is closed. I have more sympathy to the closed business using the technology when they're closed. It's substituting for voice mail. The open business (HVAC) though, …
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2 experts · 3 posts · 1d ago
Anthony Moser Abstract Tesseract
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“"The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature version of humanity." I wonder if he thinks that microcosm of humanity also includes the phenomenon of guys with too much institu…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: I'm going to mail him a hot dog suit
Abstract Tesseract: "The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature version of humanity." I wonder if he thinks that microcosm of humanity also includes the phenomenon of guys with too much institu…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 1d ago
jake Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“did you miss the part of where the person you responded to said "*if* we ever created a true AI ..."? they didn't say anything about "word-generation machines", and could refer to some Star Trek po…” evidence ↗
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: what if p(doom) is p(wealth distribution) which some see as p(doom)
jake: did you miss the part of where the person you responded to said "*if* we ever created a true AI ..."? they didn't say anything about "word-generation machines", and could refer to some Star Trek po…
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