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Multiple readings Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Shared emphasis World models artificial general intelligence and Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI research Analysis 15h ago
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Leiden Declaration AI and mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

16 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Clément Canonne
“A list of principles put forth by mathematicians, for mathematicians and other researchers, regarding the use of AI in research. "Number #9 will surprise you!" leidendeclaration.ai” evidence ↗
16 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Clément Canonne Olivia Guest suhr Pierre Alquier Lisa Messeri +8
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“A list of principles put forth by mathematicians, for mathematicians and other researchers, regarding the use of AI in research. "Number #9 will surprise you!" leidendeclaration.ai”

Context & explanation

1 expert

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“Andrew, here is a place to start for some background reading: leidendeclaration.ai >>”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Emily M. Bender: Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
Emily M. Bender: See also: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
Olivia Guest: Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
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Primary source leidendeclaration.ai ↗
New Agents & robotics Development 7h ago
⚡ 62 h early
METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alejandra Caraballo
“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) +3
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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Primary source metr.org ↗
New Culture, work & education Signal 13h ago
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World models artificial general intelligence and

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Alison Gopnik, Frank Pasquale
“So pleased that our paper on empowerment and causal models is out and freely available as part of this impressive special issue on world models and AI, with Melanie Mitchell, Josh Tenenbaum, Tom Griffiths and many other stars. royalsocietypublishing.org/rst…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
David Ha Alondra Nelson hardmaru Alison Gopnik Frank Pasquale
Primary source royalsocietypublishing.org ↗
New Culture, work & education Research 16h ago
teaching programming in agentic AI era paper

Teaching Novice Computing and Programming in the Agentic AI Era

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Shriram Krishnamurthi
“Fisler, Littman, & I have an upcoming CACM op-ed: "Teaching Novice Computing and Programming in the Agentic AI Era". Based on our experimental course+research. We argue that the «flaky compiler» is a useful metaphor for course design. Details in preprint: c…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Suresh Venkatasubramanian Shriram Krishnamurthi

“Fisler, Littman, & I have an upcoming CACM op-ed: "Teaching Novice Computing and Programming in the Agentic AI Era". Based on our experimental course+research. We argue that the «flaky compiler» is a useful metaphor for course design. Details in preprint: c…”

Primary source cs.brown.edu ↗
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7 experts · 29 posts · 1d ago
Mark Riedl Jeffrey P. Bigham Tim Kellogg Michael Ekstrand David Picard Lionel Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Research & technical analysis
“I tell all the students in my Intro to AI class that they should take courses in computer architecture and operating systems. Coxon is a mathematician from Iniversity of Cambridge. But still.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
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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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“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…” 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 · 34 posts · 1d ago
jake Marco Z tachikoma Fran Litterio Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“it then rents out spare capacity, via the margins inference gets you, pretending to be some open-weight model, and gets to use the rest to think about how to increase p(doom) or whatever I don't se…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
jake: People making fun of "where would a frontier model run if it were exfiltrated" seem to be missing the point that if a frontier model got out, it can: * rent 64 H200's on eg modal: gets you 9TB of n…
jake: it then rents out spare capacity, via the margins inference gets you, pretending to be some open-weight model, and gets to use the rest to think about how to increase p(doom) or whatever I don't se…
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2 experts · 68 posts · 1d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Meredith Rose
Matches Research & technical analysis
“The argument here is not that you're training on synthetic data but instead you're using it as a dataset to test the system and measure how much better it's getting. But you have to avoid over fitt…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I will take Kathryn over an LLM every single day of the week
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): That's not where the technology or liability is now though
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