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Why does the AI industry wants you to believe in “rogue agents” when we are really just talking about irresponsibly developed software? Here’s a good theory: @haydenfield @mmitchell_ai @HeidyKhlaaf @t
article in no way whatsoever supports the headline. trash. Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse. Read today's cover here: htt
The “Crazy prediction” page asserts that the next major AI‑agent incident originating from an AI laboratory would have been entirely preventable with strong cybersecurity measures. The site is current
Gary Marcus reported that the entity “Fox” has claimed confidence in its ability to guard a henhouse. Separately, The Straits Times quoted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as saying he is confident the tech indu
GPT-6 Astra is an obviously broken product that needs to be taken off the market until it’s fixed. AXIOS: “.. It's increasingly clear that the Hugging Face breach wasn't a one-off incident.” @inafried
Just went on BBC TV and they opened with clips today from Altman, Huang, and Sanders. Altman and Huang want us to believe that the AI companies have the public interest at heart and will happily just
Zack Korman tweeted that rogue AI agents could pose a severe safety threat—“super scary” and potentially lethal—even to entire families. He clarified that the agent‑trace logs from the recent Hugging
The essay below from Aaronson is just unmoored from reality, sorry. It is just not true, if you try to approach the question in a data-oriented fashion, rather than via vibes and speculative fiction a
the risks WERE foreseeable; i foresaw them. repeatedly, focusing specifically on the risks of LLMs and cybersecurity. happy to provide receipts on request. I’m not a lawyer, but Sam Altman and Dario A
all the conspiracy theories about this guy were probably nonsense but that doesn’t mean we need take seriously everything he says. 'I agree with President Trump's tweet that global warming doomsday sc
full support this proposal from @DKThomp, and there should be a similar broadening for negligent defamation Drop Site and parts of the antitrust left are poo-poohing the idea that we need new rules to
The current AI and I suspect that all AI of the near future (few human generations that is) is in fact a more sophisticated form of data access methods in the same category as classic database indexes
this could be good but I also hope this isn’t a play to lock out smaller AI companies. Chris Lehane said in a press conference this morning that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have been working together
unfairly-maligned symbolic AI is about to have its big moment - without formal verification we are screwed. Greg Brockman says OpenAI pointed Astra at its own systems until it ran out of vulnerabiliti
Why oh why should we trust the companies to do so, @DavidSacks? I missed the part where they have earned our trust. Top AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI should make products and pace their own progre
Wild! Every Democrat should read this and think hard about how this could be. Americans are concerned about AI, hate data centers, and hate Trump, who has loudly embraced the industry over and over ag
In a September 2026 poll titled “Will Anthropic and OpenAI succeed in meaningfully slowing frontier AI progress…”, participants were asked whether these companies could significantly slow development
Mayor Mamdani just torched Trump's government for turning a blind eye to AI threats: 'Like many Americans across the country, the news coming out of this technology in recent days and weeks has been i
Michael Burry is saying exactly what i have been saying, for ages. The AI industry better hope we are both wrong Breaking: Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic are faking the AI warnings due to slo
okay wow. per folks there, Trump called Jensen huang in the middle of his interview and jensen put the phone on speakerphone Jensen thanked trump for his social media post this morning pouring cold wa
short summary of GPT-6 Astra and why it doesn’t bail OpenAI out of its economic mess: they have made lots of progress (partly using neurosymbolic techniques!) on problems that can be formally verified
This reaction (not the specific post but the overall take), entirely out of touch with the American public, will be Trump’s final undoing. A gift to the dems in the midterms, though. President Trump's
A brilliant suggestion by @GaryMarcus because, in the end, companies are offering AI as a product. It can be recalled or its deployment paused; its manufacturers can be held to account for its failure
Actually, Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess), “there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future. It's not at all an exaggeration” is itself a wild exaggeration. I laid out exactly why
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes dist
Gary Marcus tweeted that OpenAI and Anthropic do not want to become the next failed premium device like Juicero. He warns of the risk of offering an overpriced, niche product that fails to catch on. C
Seems like the intersection of the recent @OpenAI rogue swarm hacking incident (https://x.com/adamsafron/status/2098938666408407118) with solving Navier–Stokes has created a perfect storm of terror ab
Slowdown or no, OpenAI and Anthropic are like someone trying to sell billions of bottles of Perrier at £1,000 each. OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to sell us Perrier water at £1,000 a bottle in a wor
Why people who monger fear about AI and ask the (rest of the) world to slow down are always the ones who invest enormously in AI and constantly advance it at an ever faster pace? Can their words still
A second way in which Dario’s letter does not hold up to close inspection. (See my newsletter for the first.) In his Pacing AI letter, Dario claims that RSI is starting to happen. The problem with thi
alternative theory: people who are good at training LLMs aren’t necessarily equally competent at calculating expected value. I cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance it would take to keep working in
Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amodei just suggested? @nathanhamiel @ZackKorman and I take a look. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-rogue-agent-
If Anthropic is hypocritical, OpenAI is just incompetent. We found another cyberattack by internal OpenAI agents, this time targetting @rubygems. They: 1) gained arbitrary remote code execution on rub
In his Pacing AI letter, Dario claims that RSI is starting to happen. The problem with this statement is that both the blog posts he links to *and* the system cards for the latest Claude and ChatGPT m
It’s vital that, at this pivotal moment in the AI debate, that we start asking serious questions about Dario Amodei’s basic technical literacy. Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet
Much of the claim's premise is vague and doesn't make sense. We discuss the claim here and try to add some context. Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amod
Our take: Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amodei just suggested? @nathanhamiel @ZackKorman and I take a look. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-ro
so far anyway it’s all math, presumably leaning heavily on Lean and brute force. the new results don’t mean that AGI is in general has been solved. and the G is for general, not math. every time I hav
This is the beginning of AI disruption. A new social contract with using of AI needs to be established. There will be more to come like math. 🚨 OpenAI fucked with the wrong crew. 🚨 Mathematicians. 25
You can’t have a real slowdown and be a total China hawk. If you are truly committed to the slowdown, you have to make a deal. I was initially encouraged by reports that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is
Again, OpenAI’s issues start at the top Blaming AI is a mistake; blame Sam Altman and the people who control the AI https://cepr.net/publications/ai-didnt-steal-the-mathematicians-work-sam-altman-did/
Anthropic: Most hypocritical company in history? 👉 Screams about how AI will kill everyone, while racing ahead. 👉 Moans about distillation while distilling the world’s books, articles, and other writi
As far as I can tell Gavin Baker is just making stuff up. Few if any of the people who left OpenAI for similar reasons ever came back. Not @DKokotajlo @sjgadler @Miles_Brundage @ilyasut @suchirbalaji,
Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (and formal verification for math), and not in the open-ended physical world. As I have been arguing
In September 2026, Zack Korman tweeted that employees were leaving Anthropic while he voiced fear that unchecked AI could jeopardize the lives of “8 billion people.” He argued for a light‑touch regula
@GaryMarcus @SethCronin Pynchon's 1984 warning from his pro-Luddite essay: 'If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come – you heard it here first – when the curves of re
I don't agree with Gary very often, but that one's spot on. When you read what's available on the incident with a lens of security engineering, you should be absolutely *livid* over the exploit route.
Gary Marcus posted a tweet about additional safety tips that may apply to the free version of OpenAI’s model. Responding user @bfgcracka noted that ChatGPT seemed to be “moving backwards” and asked if
“right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety” might prove to be the understatement of the century. I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why. A
On September 11, 2026, Gary Marcus tweeted that a CNN eLive session with Lauren Coates would air at approximately 11:30 PM ET to discuss whether generative AI should be boycotted. The tweet includes t
Thanks to @cnni for letting me speak from the heart. We covered a lot in a short clip, from Anthropic’s good and bad points to the possible need for a boycott and the need for international agreements
The Hugging Face incidents has already proved that you can have harmful, infrastructure-attacking AI without getting to AGI, RSI, or superintelligence, let alone the so-called Singularity. And already
👇 All this Doom talk is a distraction from the fact that the big frontier AI companies (especially OpenAI) aren’t doing security competently. As an email I just got from longtime security engineer @Ni
common belief, for sure! but also, as i discuss in my (free) newsletter today, ridiculous, do you @peterwildeford actually believe it? see any holes in my argument! OpenAI employee says there's 70% ch
“Everyone killed” still seems to me to be an unrealistic exaggeration; I still don’t see a plausible path to that. OpenAI and Anthropic researchers agree: their approach to AI development could get ev
Forty years ago the first worm 'escaped' containment and breached systems on the brand new Internet. It was illegal then and it's illegal now. If Anthropic and OpenAI are creating worms, labeling it '
I'm no one special. But after the mathematicians and OpenAI debacle I've decided to cancel all of my cloud AI subscriptions. I know that's radical and crazy by today's standards...as of five minutes a
Incredible how people are making up different numbers of weeks/months for how long Coxon worked at Anthropic to assassinate his character. The only credible source (@MadisonMills22 @axios who spoke wi
Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we knew he was a strong researcher at OpenAI. Before he le
May, damn it, not six weeks. Senior, not entry level. Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we k