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New AI research Analysis 8h 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

“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”

“Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: 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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New Models & releases Signal 8h ago
⚡ 56 h early

Research acceleration view inside openai

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Tim Kellogg, Boris Power, René Walter
“OpenAI has an automated AI “research intern” openai.com/index/resear...” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
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 Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Michiel Bakker
“@kotekjedi_ml Here Ant's report https://t.co/22vHruWVqH And the paper from @kotekjedi_ml @DavidSchmotz @iliaishacked https://t.co/wuCpNZaQ0d” 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 Models & releases Signal 6h ago

Anthropic ai biological weapons

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Shannon Mattern
““Anthropic said it could not determine whether the research served a legitimate or nefarious purpose because valid biological inquiry… can also help engineer dangerous pathogens.” Reminiscing on the days when we had peer review panels with enough subject ex…” evidence ↗
8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
New Safety & security Analysis 8h 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 Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Nathan Lambert, Justin Hendrix
“A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terr…” 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”

Accelerating AI business Signal 5h ago

Anthropic ceo dario amodei calls ai industry slow down

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Berna Devezer
“ivy full prof who publishes 25 papers a year calls for academics to publish less” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
New AI field signal Signal 1h ago

Why do we do astrophysics?

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Mark Riedl, Jonathan Stray
“I've found it instructive watching is happening in the physical sciences with LLM-accelerated research. This passage from "The Last Astronomers" in Science resonated with me www.science.org/content/arti... (here is the arXiv article referenced: arxiv.org/ab…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
New Culture, work & education Signal 12h ago
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World models artificial general intelligence and

4 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 ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
New AI field signal Signal 43m ago

ieeexplore.ieee.org

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Julian Togelius
“A few years ago, Georgios Yannakakis and I wrote an article about what to do as an AI researcher when a giant AI company steamrolls your research field. I just looked at it again and, well, it’s still relevant. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/104...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“A few years ago, Georgios Yannakakis and I wrote an article about what to do as an AI researcher when a giant AI company steamrolls your research field. I just looked at it again and, well, it’s still relevant. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/104...”

New Models & releases Release 12h ago
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Sakana AI product page

Sakana AI

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sakana AI
“Peak performance across hard benchmarks: • Best on 5/8 benchmarks (DeepSWE, Chartography, Toolathon, GDP.pdf, SWEFish) • Chartography: 48.3 (outperforming Opus 5 & Fable 5) • DeepSWE: 74.3 Achieved without Fable 5, Fable 5.1, or GPT-6-Astra in the agent poo…” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“By orchestrating the world's models, we are building the resilient infrastructure required for AI sovereignty. Try: sakana.ai/fugu Blog: sakana.ai/fugu-max-rel... 🐡”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Peak performance across hard benchmarks: • Best on 5/8 benchmarks (DeepSWE, Chartography, Toolathon, GDP.pdf, SWEFish) • Chartography: 48.3 (outperforming Opus 5 & Fable 5) • DeepSWE: 74.3 Achieved without Fable 5, Fable 5.1, or GPT-6-Astra in the agent poo…”

New Models & releases Research 15h ago
⚡ 101 h early
LLM war judgment alignment paper

Language models judge war differently when tested for alignment

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · John Horton
“Interesting paper from @maxchupilkin illustrating a kind of 'Volkswagen emissions test" effect where LLMs respond differently about war when being told then are being tested for alignment https://t.co/rMWObcyPZI 1/ https://t.co/g9rysSZk3p” evidence ↗
2 experts 0 communities 1 sources clustered

“Interesting paper from @maxchupilkin illustrating a kind of 'Volkswagen emissions test" effect where LLMs respond differently about war when being told then are being tested for alignment https://t.co/rMWObcyPZI 1/ https://t.co/g9rysSZk3p”

“Language models judge war differently when tested for alignment Maxim Chupilkin https://t.co/YfyoMfeA08 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚈] https://t.co/0voM3qtf8M”

New Models & releases Research 15h ago
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clinical LLM deterministic math solver

Towards a Deterministic Math Solver for Clinical Language Models

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · AI Firehose
“MIT researchers introduced a method to enhance clinical calculators, allowing models to produce Python code for calculations. The 'Program-Solve' approach yields better accuracy in medical computations, surpassing standard arithmetic. https://arxiv.org/abs/…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“MIT researchers introduced a method to enhance clinical calculators, allowing models to produce Python code for calculations. The 'Program-Solve' approach yields better accuracy in medical computations, surpassing standard arithmetic. https://arxiv.org/abs/…”

“Towards a Deterministic Math Solver for Clinical Language Models Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordoñez, Maximin Lange, Rafi Al Attrach, Sahil Kapadia, Zakaria Laouabdia Sellami, Angelo Antonio Talio, Leo Anthony Celi https://t.co/aAT7Z0DMoe […”

New Models & releases Signal 5h ago

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Christopher Manning
“Holistic Evaluation of Language Models – https://t.co/jEje8m0mDp ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs – https://t.co/sHYjxabKQx Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence – https://t.co/aTSrtInvKS AI gen…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Holistic Evaluation of Language Models – https://t.co/jEje8m0mDp ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs – https://t.co/sHYjxabKQx Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence – https://t.co/aTSrtInvKS AI gen…”

New Models & releases Signal 5h ago

ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Christopher Manning
“Holistic Evaluation of Language Models – https://t.co/jEje8m0mDp ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs – https://t.co/sHYjxabKQx Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence – https://t.co/aTSrtInvKS AI gen…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Holistic Evaluation of Language Models – https://t.co/jEje8m0mDp ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs – https://t.co/sHYjxabKQx Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence – https://t.co/aTSrtInvKS AI gen…”

New Models & releases Release 12h ago
Fugu Ultra v2 model release

Fugu Ultra v2 - API Pricing & Providers

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sakana AI
“Fugu Ultra v2 is now live on OpenRouter! 🐡 openrouter.ai/sakana/fugu-... Our flagship orchestration engine built for peak performance on complex multi-step reasoning, autonomous research, and full-stack software development.” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Fugu Ultra v2 is now live on OpenRouter! 🐡 openrouter.ai/sakana/fugu-... Our flagship orchestration engine built for peak performance on complex multi-step reasoning, autonomous research, and full-stack software development.”

New Responsible AI Signal 4h ago

AI auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Deb Raji
“Fwiw academia has always played a critical role in third party accountability & AI auditing - challenges abound but the commitment to publication and peer review also incentivizes some degree of rigor & public engagement (we write a bit about that h…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Fwiw academia has always played a critical role in third party accountability & AI auditing - challenges abound but the commitment to publication and peer review also incentivizes some degree of rigor & public engagement (we write a bit about that h…”

New AI field signal Signal 4h ago

Who Audits the Auditors? Recommendations from a field scan of the algorithmic auditing ecosystem

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Deb Raji
“I feel like we're due a new version of this paper for the "frontier AI" audit ecosystem: https://t.co/vTfyyQJk7r” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“I feel like we're due a new version of this paper for the "frontier AI" audit ecosystem: https://t.co/vTfyyQJk7r”

New Models & releases Signal 16h ago

Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alexander Doria
“Yes with CoT. Transformer circuit also has experiments with straight (simpler) operations. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Yes with CoT. Transformer circuit also has experiments with straight (simpler) operations. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...”

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

5 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
Matches Research & technical analysis
“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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3 experts · 19 posts · 1d ago
Matches Research & technical analysis
“When it comes to steam, we find basically the same phenomenon—a fact that should come as a surprise to those who think AI fears are about an alien intelligence, rather than capitalism.” 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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2 experts · 16 posts · 1d ago
Matches Research & technical analysis
“Yes! Ultimately, writing something on paper means we ourselves can have access to something that gives us superhuman memory.” 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
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“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…” 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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