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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

ALLFED research, featured in @livescience.com, examines how an AMOC collapse could affect global food production. Senior Economist Michael Hinge spoke with @saschapare.bsky.social about the findings and what they mean for food-system resilience. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapse

Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

One of my big kicking-myself-for-not-seeing-it-despite-claiming-to-be-a-futurist, is that of course once AI is big business or geopolitics, AI safety would be buffeted by interest groups. modelrepublic.substack.com/p/who-is-beh...

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Who is behind the AI safety backlash?

Following a viral resignation, the backlash against AI safety was sudden and swift. Various signs suggest an industry push is supporting it.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

Suno can make songs based on pictures. OK, how weird pictures? Mathematics memes, surely not? Oh... it recognized that this is a Gram-Schmidt process! suno.com/song/312316a...

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Gram-Schmidt Lemons

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

Adding an AI rendering of my scalesona to Suno produced a surprisingly good longtermist metal song. It is interesting to see how much background context sneaks in here. suno.com/song/02aa52d...

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Five Eyes Watch

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Applications are now open for our MPhil in Global Risk & Resilience! From AI & biosecurity to climate change, this 1 year course will equip you with the skills to understand how global catastrophic risk can be managed &and mitigated. Applications close: 8 Dec 2026

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 21/09/2026

I suspect these add-ons will be equally popular.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026

millenniumproblems.bio OK, we should bet on when they get solved (likely by AI). My own guess is "way sooner than would have seemed reasonable a few years ago" with a few exceptions (like, sadly, cryopreservation and limb regeneration) that are not amenable to lab automation.

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The Millennium Problems for Biology

A working catalogue of twelve open problems in biology — each a concrete, testable target for the field.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026

Under the auspices of Oxford Physics, we held a discussion on the implications of recent work using genome language models to design novel, viable bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria. drive.google.com/file/d/18Szy...

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AI_Enabled_Biological_Design_Public_Summary.pdf

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 17/09/2026

Jag dyker upp på "En AI till kaffet", snackandes AI, existentiell risk, medvetande, Fermiparadoxen, kryonik, framtidsforskning, frihet... youtu.be/XwxG3DeoxGg?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5pIW...

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Anders Sandberg: Risken att AI utplånar mänskligheten är omkring 10% | En AI till Kaffet #104

YouTube video by En AI till Kaffet

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

The "train fruit fly connectomes to do task X" community is fun. In one sense it is "take this topology and train it to do X" with no biological relevance. In another sense it is testing "does this topology have a very useful, pretty general structure for sensing/acting?" gizmodo.com/google-mappe...

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Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it play video games.

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EBRAINS @ebrains.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🧠 Explore whole-brain modelling at the EBRAINS Users Days in Heidelberg. On 7 October, Spase Petkoski will lead a hands-on TVB tutorial on setting up and running whole-brain simulations through research use cases. Programme and registration 👇 flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?m=S...

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

transhumanism that works is just called medicine

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

This was delightful. A good demonstration of how one can use generative art together with traditional media. youtu.be/WmdZ04y0ufI?...

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Verdelis & Mycos - award winning sci-fi animation

YouTube video by Little Martians

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

This is a very thoughtful essay from Daniel Selsam (OpenAI capabilities researcher), seeing firsthand the growing problems we have in making AI safe. Also, it might help outsiders understand that uncontrolled superintelligence is something insiders take seriously. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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Personal Statement on AI Risk

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

There are many reasons to do mathematics, just like for making images. I am all for using AI in both fields. But I think Terence Tao et al. have a good point: for the purposes of pushing limits of understanding, *current* AI is not giving us what we need. bsky.app/profile/teor...

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Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social)

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing t...

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026

Det är synd att svenska valkampanjen inte tar upp så mycket AI. Även om man ignorerar xrisk är ekonomi relevant. Om man kollar in den här modellen så är det en märkbar chans för en rejäl förändring av tillväxt och knowledge work *under mandatperioden*. www.anthropic.com/institute/ec...

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026

The right to our own bodies also must imply a right to know our own bodies, and share such information if we wish. The French anti-genetic testing laws don't seem to be compatible with such rights. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Our DNA dilemma: Why we broke the law to make sure we were not siblings

A French couple - both conceived by sperm donors - wanted children. But with home DNA tests illegal, how could they be sure they were not related?

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 26/08/2026

I really liked the paper, but I was curious about the data. So I quickly vibe-coded an interactive interface.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 21/08/2026

M föreslår bakgrundskontroller i datingappar. Borde vi inte tillåta, eller till och med göra obligatoriskt, med offentliga bakgrundskontroller för politiker? Trots allt, om risken vid dating är stor nog att motivera dem borde den vara stor nog för sådana ämbeten.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 17/08/2026

As a Swede, I know what happens when the king starts redesigning ships. Vasa sailed one mile on its maiden voyage, then it sank. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... www.simscale.com/blog/vasa-sh...

The Guardian headline: Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets.

On the 16th of January, 1625, that King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden directed Admiral Fleming to sign a contract with the shipbuilders of Stockholm (Hendrik and Arend Hybertsson) to build four ships. Two smaller ships (108-ft keel length) and two bigger ships (135-ft keel length) were to be built over the course of four years. In the months that followed, King Gustav changed his orders several times, leading to total chaos and confusion for the builders.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tickets are now available for CSER’s Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk, 17th – 18th September 2026! CCCR 2026 brings together the X-risk community, with a focus on the governance challenges shaping tomorrow’s world. Find out more & buy tickets here: bit.ly/4bIGmDz #CCCR2026

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 12/08/2026

When I visited Estonia, I ended up with a nice book of rock lichens of Estonia. Seems Latvia is also into mycology (in an extended sense): they have slime mold of the year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8P... Makes me wonder what Lithuania is up to?

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The Slime Mould of the Year in Latvia

YouTube video by Connor Quimby

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 08/08/2026

Attending a Digital Minds Strategy Workshop in Cambridge, and it feels fitting that the talks from the Machine Consciousness 0001 Conference just dropped: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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MC0001 Conference - YouTube

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 06/08/2026

The current AI-cybersecurity situation is worrying: that frontier AI identifies lots of vulnerabilities, allowing patching, is good. But that assumes the patches get used by users - if they lag, they become exponentially more vulnerable. We are in the summer holidays... epoch.ai/data-insight...

Plot of serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities disclosed over time, rising dramatically in 2026. From epoch.ai

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 05/08/2026

Interesting data from a survey showing it is the US political left that currently supports free trade deals between nations. www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Graphics from https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-supports-free-trade-everyone showing popularity of free trade agreement between countries across the US political parties, showing that the most positive are to the political left.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 04/08/2026

I wonder if the mere existence of current AI is forcing scholars to be more exacting in actually checking references, since a flawed reference now looks like professionally embarrassing sloppy AI use.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 02/08/2026

British politics and British comedy are very close to each other.

Bar chart showing 33% of the public supporting Count Binface, 21% Nigel Farage, 32% Neither, 13% dont't know. From Ipsos.

Public prefer Count Binface to win in Clacton over Nigel Farage

· When asked about the Clacton contest, 1 in 3 British adults (33%) would prefer Count Binface to win, while 21% prefer Nigel Farage and 32% choose neither. 13% don’t know.
· 69% support Count Binface’s policy of restoring the price of a 99p flake to 99p, and 53% back capping croissant prices at £1.
· However, other proposed policies have more middling support, with 36% opposing forcing rule-breaking cyclists to ride unicycles. Perhaps surprisingly, just 32% support abolishing VAR, compared to 21% who support abolishing the football technology.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 29/07/2026

Given the recent FIFA commercialization nonsense, why not go full #MarketsInEverything and have auctions for red and yellow cards? That may make refereeing so much more efficient!

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 26/07/2026

This song is one of the deep songs that I come back to again and again, and the fan video also grasps it so perfectly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RCI...

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Landsailor - Vienna Teng Fan Video

YouTube video by Rowan Oake

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 26/07/2026

It is fun to scout around for conjectures to throw AI at. Here is one that got away so far: are there convex polyhedra without nonoverlapping unfoldings? The Barvinok–Ghomi pseudo-edge construction almost disproves it, but Sol failed at turning it into an edge construction.

Part of a convex polyhedron that might not be unfoldable onto a plane without overlaps, based on Barvinok-Ghomi's model updated by ChatGPT Sol.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 25/07/2026

Strolling around on the MIT campus. One thing I notice is the number of tourists. Families coming to see where mom or dad studied - or where the kid likely will go. Looking at cool machinery or architecture. I have never seen this at other universities; I wish it was more common.

Anders Sandberg in front of the Infinite Corridor of MIT.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 25/07/2026

Setting up an official AI killswitch is a great idea, since it (and the hosting institution, and people involved) will be such a primary hacking target that it will tell us the state of unfiltered cyber capacity (until it gets too subtle, of course).

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026

Here is my quick talk about how rapidly Dyson swarms can be constructed, from the Foresight Vision Weekend in London a few weeks ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsH...

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Anders Sandberg | How Fast Can We Build a Dyson Sphere? @ Vision Weekend UK 2026

YouTube video by Foresight Institute

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026

Currently stuck in little Skövde due to rail trouble. That does not annoy me. What annoys me: Espresso House has screens flipping through so many ads for new drinks that one cannot see the menu.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026

"We are all in the same scholarly boat here, trying to pump out mistakes faster than we make them" - me after a day of paper writing, to two LLMs (one apologizing profusely to the other one for having accused it of hallucinating a reference that did exist.)

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026

This is on the level of Lander and Parkin’s paper disproving the sum of powers conjecture by Euler. I suspect counterexamples are particularly suited for tweet-length math. But I look forward to the tweet-length proofs even more.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026

Olle Häggström has a sensible response to the recent autonomous hack from an OpenAI internal model into Huggung Face: haggstrom.substack.com/p/can-we-ple... I just doubt warning shots work.

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Can we please treat this as the warning shot it is?

On the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026

Given that leaks are responsible for about 400 times the water usage of all data centers in the UK, there is an obvious win-win solution: approve as many data centers as the market wants, but they have to fix at least twice as much leakage as they want to use water.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 14/07/2026

Unexpected benefit of using a LLM: it explained the likely reactions to an interdisciplinary paper idea from people from different disciplines, allowing me to reshape it to - hopefully - make sense to both economists and political science readers.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 13/07/2026

I signed “We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy.” www.wemustactnow.ai ...which is much less alarming than it sounds. It is basically "this is a fricking big thing, we ought to investigate this *way* more than is being done!"

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We Must Act Now

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 11/07/2026

I like ai-2040.com as futures scenario building. It is an exploration of an option space, not so much a prediction (I still predict people will misinterpret it like one). It is an explanation of a point of view, hopefully leading to others making an alphabet of plans.

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AI 2040: Plan A

A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.wsocial.eu · 11/07/2026

Morphological freedom is a key human freedom. As biomedicine advances, bodies become cultural artefacts, and the right to change or retain them becomes essential for being able to hold other rights.

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