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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨👀 Last week I legit spent 2.5 hours reading Anthropic's AI Misuse Report end-to-end. Wanted to make a video but it would have been 4+ hours, so… Here's a 21-page PDF with my favorite 117 findings as bullets: danielmiessler.com/blog/anthropic-m…

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🧠 Unsupervised Learning NO. 542 is out. 🔓 AI attacker teams, 🤖 model routing, 🧭 TELOS risk registers. 🙏 Thanks to our sponsor Sublime: ul.live/sublime_n542 newsletter.danielmiessler.com/p/uns…

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I built an AI agent called Socrates that refuses to give answers. It asks you for yours, then asks how you know. For kids doing homework, and for anyone who can feel their thinking getting lazy. One file, free: danielmiessler.com/blog/the-socrate…

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What I think is really important right now is making sure you're not living someone else's life.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Just read. One book at a time, or 17. I’m currently reading: Letters to a Young Poet, The Dharma Bums, Accelerando, The Peregrine, Dominion, and more. It’s chaos. I’m embracing it.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

One good way to think about AI—and all major tech movements like electrification, the internet, etc—is as a Technological Weather Event. Not just to say that it’s mostly unavoidable, but that it really matters how we think about and prepare for them as a population.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Watched The Accountant 2 and loved the concept of Acquired Savant Syndrome—when brain injury unlocks genius. What if ASI could figure out how to trigger that intentionally? AI shouldn’t just make better AI. It should make better humans.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Most every task is easier if you have more information. One of AI's primary benefits won't be just making smarter decisions itself, but providing the narrative context to make the decision easy for anyone.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Our jobs mentality is based on a lie. ➡️ We were told that there are special people who make things—but we're not one of them. ➡️ And our role is to work for one of them, hopefully… Fuck that. The illusion is collapsing. You are the special person. You can make things.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I’ve been thinking about how AI might reshape what it means to be a developer. We’re hearing a lot of predictions—some saying tech jobs will vanish, others saying AI will supercharge demand. But I think the more interesting shift is in who companies will need. 🧵

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

One of the biggest use cases for prompt injection and persuasion will be in product API’s targeting models and digital assistant agents with marketing. Marketing targeting humans won’t be nearly as important as the marketing targeting the AI working for the humans.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Here's something nobody's talking about with AI... Removing the Fog of War. Elite generals and principal engineers shine when info is scarce. Expertise = stitching limited info into a usable world model. 🧵

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Moats aren’t just for businesses. In the age of AI and infinite replication, individuals need them too. Ask yourself: — What makes you hard to copy? — What will still be uniquely you in 5 years? This is the new career planning.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

💡People are obsessing over the specific AI tech that will replace human workers… …but the bigger point is that companies are so excited about replacing workers in the first place. 🔥Corporate Mindset ➡️ Independent Mindset

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Visual persuasion is a double-edged sword. Once you see something, your brain starts believing it—even if it’s false. In a world of AI-generated content and visual manipulation, literacy isn’t enough. We need epistemic defense systems. How are you building yours?

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

💡 Want to improve your strategy? Try inversion. Instead of asking what to do, ask: 👉 What actions would guarantee failure? Then… just don’t do those things. It’s a simple but powerful shift. What are your top “don’ts” for your space?

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Going to #RSA? I’ll be speaking at Aegis of Tomorrow: An AI & Security Summit on Monday, April 28 from 3–5pm. I’ll be sharing a framework for cutting through AI hype and prioritizing cybersecurity investments based on how attacker capabilities are actually evolving. 👉 Register here: lu.ma/9j1p8ixj

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"Teman then started collecting more and more, from more and more sources. At some point he couldn't tell whether he had slow-read the his knowledge before the change, or if it was part of a scrape / summarization / injection flow. Even more alarming, he stopped caring."

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

❌ “Learn to code”. ✅ “Learn to make”. Technology is currently the best lever for one person to improve the lives of millions. And today that means making stuff using code. Making should be a core skill, like reading and writing. Learn to make.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I think both AGI and ASI can come from models no “smarter” than they are today. My intuition is that we just need vastly more memory and agent orchestration for both.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’ve been thinking about how business—and security—becomes a loop: Policy → State → SOP → Action → Repeat. AI will run most of it. The only part that stays human long-term is the idea: What do we want to build, and why? #AI #Cybersecurity #FutureOfWork

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

NPCs will be the first people replaced by AI. If you’re currently one, it’s time to stop. The difference between an NPC and a PC isn’t your profession—it’s how you do that profession.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I think decent robots are going to be way more emotionally disruptive to society than even AGI. They’re tangible. And they replace workers who have fewer options.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Not learning to code just because there are AI coding agents is like not learning how to think because there are talk shows. Writing = thinking. Creating = imagining. Coding = building. If you're in tech in 2025 and you can't do these things, your career is at risk. Adapt.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Vibe coding produces insecure MVPs, not professional applications. The next task for AI will be to secure and professionalize the millions of haphazardly assembled applications that are about to be on the Internet. There’s so many ways to make money in this new world of vibe coding.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm going to do a video on this, but here's my uber-simple explanation of MCPs. 1️⃣ Tons of applications and databases exist in the world 2️⃣ It takes a lot of manual effort to make them usable 3️⃣ MCP is a client/server protocol for making it easy 4️⃣ 👇🏼

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I think the first AGI will come in the form of an enterprise product with marketing like this: “Introducing NewHire: a high-agency, AGI employee for your business… 🧵

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The total TAM for AI is a combination of 2 main components: 1. The total cost of human workforces 2. The amount of money that current and future companies will pay to start, 10x, or 1000x their business We're talking hundreds of trillions of dollars. Don't get distracted.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

One of the biggest impacts of AI that goes kind of unnoticed is that we’re about to see an explosion of poorly built applications. Specifically, applications built completely by AI with no thought of security whatsoever. 🧵

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

How’s your productivity been this week? 🧠Don’t clutter your mind with anything before starting work. Treat your morning clarity as a precious resource! You want that energy to go into difficult work, not distraction and fragmentation.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

China’s use of emotional pressure and family ties to coerce members of its diaspora into becoming intelligence assets is a deeply concerning issue.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Fantastic. So what do you specifically find flaw in with my definition of understanding?

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I'm going to be building something for this very soon. Check out what I had in the early 2000s. I'm rebuilding it, but much more powerful this time.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I think the new meta skills might be creativity and judgment. When AI can build anything we come up with, the most important things become, knowing what to tell it to build, and being able to shape it towards high versus low quality.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’ve been thinking about an offline AI oracle for emergencies—something you can run locally during disasters to answer questions like how to make a tourniquet, purify water, or identify edible plants. Anyone know of something like this, or want to help build it? 🌍🤖 #OfflineAI #TechnologyForHumanity

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’ve been experimenting with using advanced AI to rate the outputs of other AIs. It’s a fascinating way to measure their capabilities, from high school to PhD-level performance. Curious to hear your thoughts. danielmiessler.com/p/using-the-... #AIResearch #AITools #Innovation #TechInsights

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reflecting on the current AI landscape, I think we’re heading into what I’d call a 'Crash-Takeoff' phase—where projects with weak fundamentals fade, while solid ones take off. It’s an interesting moment to observe. How do you think AI will evolve from here? #AITrends #FutureThinking

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thinking about what might shape 2025—from AI agents to geopolitical shifts. None of these ideas are certain, but I think discussing them helps us prepare for what might come. I’d love to hear your thoughts: danielmiessler.com/p/frontview-mirror-2025 #Predictions2025 #FutureTrends #AI #Geopolitics

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇꜱꜱʟᴇʀ @danielmiessler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note you play that determines if it’s good or bad." – Miles Davis I’ve been reflecting on this. I think it’s a helpful mindset for navigating the unexpected. The key isn’t avoiding mistakes—it’s adapting once they happen. #Resilience #Wisdom

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