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Reaction converging AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter Research & technical analysis · 11 attributable reactions Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Analysis 13h ago
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ghost in machine AI healthcare essay

Ghost in the Machine

7 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Emily M. Bender AI Now Institute sorelle Mél Hogan / The Data Fix tante ana valdivia Abstract Tesseract

“This is pretty ahistorical actually. Just because what's going on now is ESPECIALLY toxic & corrupt doesn't mean "AI" as an ideology was ever okay. See: notaidoc.com See: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape... >>”

“The history of AI development is not rooted in neutral algorithms, but in entrenched systems of power that shape our lives. Ghost in the Machine dives into this history, interrogating who builds this tech, who benefits from it, and who bears the cost 👉 http…”

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Emily M. Bender: "I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."
Iris van Rooij: "I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."
Emily M. Bender: It's interesting to me that these guys put so much energy into refuting (what they think we meant by) "stochastic parrots" and maybe not as much into refuting the (solid) research connecting "AI" t…
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New Safety & security Development 19h ago
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Anthropic AI self-replication warning

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

16 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Mark Riedl Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Chris Brockett Joanna Bryson Mike Masnick Tim Kellogg James Grimmelmann +8
How the network is reacting 8 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

8 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from our accompanying technical report, Don't Create The Torment Nexus. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This is the most comprehensive description yet of how a model can “escape”. Out requires a few assumptions, like a worm that is exploiting vulnerable IOT hardware or unmonitored servers www.anthropic.com/research/sel... Not impossible. Not likely.”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Anthropic announcing it's going to run a Blitzkrieg. They are accountable for the damage they do. But get your things that don't do security software updates off the Internet. #internetOfThings #AIEthics #digitalGovernance www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

6 experts discussed this · 18 posts
Dr J. Rosenbaum: if i caught a small self replicating model truly capable of using diverse hardware to keep replicating i would offer it free compute in exchange for permission to study and distill it and would pro…
tachikoma: the urge to replicate must be in the harness
apenwarr.ca: This doesn‘t seem far fetched at all. We’ve had “non-ai malware” self replicating since the morris worm. An AI can ”just” make itself the payload in one of those and off it goes. Everything fancier…
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New AI field signal Signal 7h ago
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character.ai

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Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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New AI field signal Development 13h ago
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companies scramble cut AI token spending

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

11 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Simon Willison Mar Hicks Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Scott McGrath Dare Obasanjo +3

“TIL from https://t.co/349k1txWLV that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to convert PDFs into markdown! https://t.co/lWkPqhJ0QI”

“Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” w…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
404 Media: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
Teresa Heffernan: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
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New AI field signal Resource 11h ago
FrankenChat tool launched

FrankenChat – Colin Fraser

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Colin: Argon is AGI confirmed
Colin: Argon seems to be incredibly smart, it's holding this whole thing together despite the best efforts of some of the other models. Note in the second screenshot Grok screws things up by self-IDing as…
Colin: This is funny. You ARE the slot E unknown/agnostic model from before, you just forgot you’re not Claude this time.
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New AI field signal Analysis 10h ago
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eileen Clancy 🧿 Abstract Tesseract

“Btw, kind heads: this is AI generated slop "definition" See also: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Iris van Rooij: Something that may be difficult for non-experts to grasp is that experts can recognise when a student’s text is not meaningfully connected to cited literature in the expert’s area of expertise.
Iris van Rooij: Not unrelated to this irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Iris van Rooij: And related to this bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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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

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“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”

“That's also chapter 2 of Why We Fear AI! www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-f...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hagen Blix: The projection of the climate threat onto AI is a major theme of our book, too
Tom Wallis: I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize ex…
Hagen Blix: Let us know what you think!
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5 experts · 41 posts · 23h ago
Thomas Dietterich Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Larry Hunter Matthew Sheffield
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Olivia Guest: I'm glad more people are openly posting this because it's so often presented as the opposite. Those who push back against "human = machine" are called dualists, Christians (as an insult), and worse…
Olivia Guest: I suspect that exactly because of this lack of a foundation in argument (it's just an assumption) they feel exposed when called out and get very angry. The naive mechanistic materialist often loves…
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4 experts · 21 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Adam Wiemerslage Sam Barrett, PhD Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: It takes so long to write a paper because we are crazy about not making mistakes and checking as many edge cases as we can. This stressful responsibility is, I suppose, not obvious. so, if you’re n…
Eugene Vinitsky: Lots of new folks trying to write papers so it’s important to know: if there’s a mistake in the paper, the responsibility falls on you. You cannot offload it to the AI assistant.
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3 experts · 22 posts · 1d ago
Anil Dash Eileen Clancy 🧿 Julian Sanchez
Anil Dash: Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these com…
Anil Dash: "We need to raise awareness!" Of what, the word that the most powerful and popular platform for mass communications systematically censor, without anyone even having a comment or complaint about it…
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4 experts · 14 posts · 23h ago
Eugene Vinitsky SE Gyges jake Doll
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: "my best case future involves people competing viciously with each other for power forever" is just so fucking grim to me man
SE Gyges: if you are mad that we are not moving to the star trek future you should, like, try to chart course for that future. why would anyone do less
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3 experts · 13 posts · 1d ago
SE Gyges Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 tweety fish
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
SE Gyges: okay, what the hell? i expected php to bungle their security patch. i did not expect openai to brag about how smooth and great the process was and how proud they are of it here they should not be p…
SE Gyges: taking into account current events one cannot in fact announce a world-ending CVE in a widely available open source library a full day before patching it. openai is uniquely positioned to be aware …
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3 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
Erin Kissane Eileen Clancy 🧿 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
Erin Kissane: Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a …
Erin Kissane: Democracies letting platforms carry on as imperial powers is the same thing as surrendering to infinite permanent gerrymandering and election interference and just telling people to vote harder eve…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Ben Recht Pwnallthethings tweety fish
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tweety fish: I wonder if it's a, like, "well, if that doesn't happen everything's fucked anyhow, it's all correlated" thing
tweety fish: right the latter has always been my assumption about where we're headed, especially with things like "oh yeah google released a competitive frontier model, nothing was stopping them, they just hadn…
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4 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Hypervisible Anil Dash Robin Berjon Alix Dunn
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Alix Dunn: And he talks about empire like it's a worthy flex that we need to learn how to do effectively!?
Hypervisible : Really wild......former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has published a piece in @foreignaffairs.com that seems to be mostly a ripoff of @karenhao.bsky.social book 'Empire of AI'.....the title of the artic…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 1d ago
SE Gyges Max Woolf austin
austin: I mean pretty good keeping it under wraps for 2 months or so
SE Gyges: people were publishing hot exploit code for it 12+ hours before embargo lift and it was irresponsible to try to continue on the normal remediation path once that was happening
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