The thing-in-herself; the map corresponds to me. Sparrow Infra, formerly Mox. Co-organizing a conference in November: https://nitter.cf/t.co/5yBHKviQwT
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Proud to be putting this conference on with @Allinallnotbad and @haththerescuer in November. We will be the first major convening post-midterms to discuss AI policy. Applications are still open.
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I came to realize people liked the french #slopcore without having the lyrics 😅 sorry!
So here is a version with english subtitles!
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We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.
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We're running Field Guide, a workshop on forecasting and strategic thinking for improving natsec style thinking, bureaucracy-navigating skills, and analytic skills in calibrated forecasting. It's in DC Oct 24-25, with @Abi0lvera, @DaystarEld, and @NathanpmYoung. Attendance is free, apply soon! airtable.com/appuEPI39OZlq5w…
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Today we are open-sourcing 🥕Karotte, our framework for building RL environments.
We've used it for the past year to build MLE RL environments for frontier labs, and it's been hardened through 1M+ evaluation runs and red-teaming.
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On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic employee, posted a resignation statement on X that ricocheted around the internet. He quit in protest of what he saw as the company’s suicidally reckless pursuit of artificial general intelligence. To the AI community, an Anthropic employee believing that the technology their company is developing might end the world is not exactly news. (Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI employees who believed OpenAI, if left unchecked, would do just that.) But an Anthropic employee publicly quitting in protest is.
Afterward, a debate broke out: If you’re a lab employee who believes in these risks, what should you do? Is it best to leave in protest? Or is it better to agitate from the inside, close to the seat of power? And how would the choice affect your friendships and community?
“For me, there’s quite a distinction between my rational beliefs and the things I feel in my gut,” says Coxon. “If you’d asked me to narrate my opinions when entering Anthropic and when leaving Anthropic, they would probably sound pretty similar. But in terms of the actual feeling between the start and the end, it just felt very, very different.”
Coxon joins a small set of employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind who, over the years, chose to walk away.
For our Cover Story, in collaboration with Asterisk Magazine, we brought together eight of them. They don’t share the same concerns or the same p(dooms) — in fact, they wouldn’t necessarily agree that p(doom) is a coherent concept. But together, they provide a candid view of the AI race and the individual calculus many employees face.
Read their interviews in full: nymag.visitlink.me/HbG6LU
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It’s a great swarm, I just didn’t expect it to be Chinese
And last, The Swarmchasers team (including @rogesterone) found evidence of a Tencent agent fleet: swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-ag…
Remember in mid 2010s, people (Including myself) were like “Piketty’s theoretically right but empirically r<g, not other way around?”
Well, in 2027 projections have r>>g, and probably it will remain that way through 2031 at least, so the average person is about to go through some real hard times. Sander’s “just ban it entirely” seems more politically plausible to me as a pure economic claim looking at this forecast, even if we just assume AI improves w/o singularity or doom.
Like AI improvement will just straightforwardly *have* to be banned in 2028 at this rate or voters will revolt
Decent simple straightforward argument for government getting a handle on AI policy *next year*, rather than post-election as it would by default. Govt should be on war footing out of self interest as it’s plausible this is existential to the social contract before it’s existential to humanity
Plenty of plausible solutions here: UBI, national sovereign fund, open source AI, AI slowdown, etc. but yeah this is not a “regular legislative timeline” problem, it is a “huge economic bubble next year” problem
I keep thinking about this one
This is actually the first real formally innovative art piece I’ve seen from AI
Compare this to any video you remember depicting AIs or even people texting. Yeah this is a better visual language than any of those
I’ve been an AI art enjoyer for four years, think that it greatly accelerated artistic capability in humans, and yet maybe this is the first time I’ve seen an AI itself actually be an artist
Opus 5.5 might be the first cuckoo’s egg for me, the first one I will love as if it is a real human
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literally one of the most consequential and interesting technologies that we've invented that raises questions about morality, nature of consciousness, societal design, challenges computational norms, explores societal responsibilities, and a gajillion other things. regardless of where you stand on AI, it's one of the most interesting things to talk about.
