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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The latest urgent research from the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/p...
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Prediction: AI will kill every human by next year, or not
Our latest prediction model uses cutting-edge binary methodology to forecast potential AI futures
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔈 Presenting DataCenter.FM, the sound of the AI bubble: datacenter.fm
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DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
Experience the real-world sounds of AI with this interactive audio generator.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚀 Here at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers we’re pleased to announce our pivot to reportless reporting 🧠 This is a continuation of our meta-work as an innovator of cutting-edge best practices for all impact-led organizations Read more: directing.attention.to/p/the-center...
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: Our pivot to reportless reportingCondensing the message

PREVIOUSLY:

CAAAC report: “Our expectation is that in 5-7 years, AGI capabilities, backed by 1000x compute vs. present day levels, will be advanced enough to replace most human workers and increasingly be operationalized in civil-control contexts.”

UNDER REPORTLESS REPORTING:

Open the window and scream:
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Did I write these words with AI? How would you be able to tell? I delve into this problem in my new @mozilla.org column (in collab with @theonion.com): www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
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How to Tell If AI is Writing This
Read our humor column on AI writing, in collaboration with The Onion. There’s no definitive test of AI writing, but there are things you can do to investigate, according to our columnist Louis Barclay...
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🎁 Today, I'm hoping to change the world forever with my Secret Santa gift for a guy I vaguely know from a Discord server: directing.attention.to/p/help-me-sa...
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Help me save the world, but don't tell Marcos: a train data Secret Santa
Let me explain by breaking down the headline.
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 10/12/2025
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If this is the first article you ever read that ends with 'I Am The Prophet of Doom', you need to get out more
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it." directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...
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“I’ll never sleep again”
Our intern Clem Park writes about her rewarding summer at CAAAC, spent writing scenarios where an AGI enslaves and tortures humanity forever
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
⚠️ Are you concerned about your child's future impact on the world? ✅ Steer them towards becoming a tech billionaire, starting NOW. My latest advice column for @mozilla.org's Nothing Personal, in collab with @theonion.com: www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
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Superficial Intelligence: Tech Parenting
Read our humor column on tech parenting, in collaboration with The Onion. Here's our columnist's best tips on how to raise a child to be a tech billionaire.
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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️ @vole.wtf · 11/11/2025
Features the work of @pauljholden.com @happytoast.co.uk @nanochess.bsky.social @edent.tel @sil.kryogenix.org @chromakode.com @louisbarclay.bsky.social @jimmeruk.bsky.social @monkeon.co.uk @gingerbeardman.com @bagpuss.org
DOCTYPE magazine cover with “10 amazing web pages” over a scene of a spaceship flying over pyramidsIllustrated characters doing the conga at the bottom of a page
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My new Mozilla column has a simple, urgent call-to-action tucked inside: 👉 Get your grandma on Signal CC @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
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Superficial Intelligence - A Humor Column from Mozilla Foundation
Read the advice column from Nothing Personal and The Onion, where we find 100% tech-driven solutions to all of humanity's problems.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Is AI researcher burnout the greatest existential threat to humanity? Our sobering new report suggests the answer is: yes
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
To stop bad actors developing AGI that could kill us all, we need good actors to develop AGI that could also kill us all Read more: alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...
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To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards
Ia Magenius explains why we need to make AI as powerful as possible to ensure it can't have power over us
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
When will the world wake up and realize that you can't make AI safe without first making it as unsafe as possible, to see just how unsafe that is? Please read and share this urgent call to action alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/a...
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To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards
Ia Magenius explains why we need to make AI as powerful as possible to ensure it can't have power over us
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What's the top TikTok of all time?
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚀 It’s finally out: the world’s first anti-deepfake wearable. 2025’s most-anticipated tech launch. It’s simple, it’s elegant, it’s versatile. And best of all: it’s 100% made up. Phew. wearthebox.com
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The Box — The World's First Anti-Deepfake Wearable
Feel safe in public again. Our elegant, full-size wearable has you covered.
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Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · 23/04/2025
🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web. 📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web. 👇Link: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g... /1
The World Wide Web sliightly exploding
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If you thought adding Jeffrey Goldberg was bad... attention.direct/bin-laden-si...
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Mike Waltz accidentally adds Osama Bin Laden to Signal group
Reports have emerged that US national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden to a private Signal group where members of the Trump administration were discus...
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My latest piece for Attention
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Meanwhile on Reddit
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This ad for Mark Wahlberg's new prayer app has a very high rate of celebrity dead eyes per second www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_IO...
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Stay Prayed Up this Lent with Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Roumie, Fr. Mike, Sr. Miriam, & Chris Pratt!
YouTube video by Hallow: Prayer & Meditation
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Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
TIL via @werd.io that governments in France and Germany (through their 18F equivalents) made an #opensource alternative to Notion/an offline Google Docs docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/
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Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Great news from OpenAI Greg's really been needing a helping hand through his darkest hours
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OpenAI releases new AI agent for your hungover colleague Greg
The AI race continued to heat up today as OpenAI announced an advanced new agent for your hungover colleague Greg.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Much-deserved piece of trolling techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/b...
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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg | TechCrunch
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Brave move by Zuckerberg and Meta. Standing by their principles.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I designed stickers to help you use your phone less so you don't have to attention.direct/stickers
attention.direct
Can some stickers change your life?
We're releasing a set of open source stickers to help you use your phone less
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
tip: if you take an x.com url and change it to xcancel.com - leaving everything after the slash intact - you can read threads logged out.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
👾 Developing some cutting edge tech over at Attention HQ: An ad that checks you're rich directingattention.substack.com/p/3-the-ad-t...
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#3: The ad that checks you're rich
Introducing Attention's first ever satirical ad
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
💥 I've just launched a new tech publication, Attention! Think: The Onion meets Wired Here's the first piece: attention.direct/search-ai Follow me as I build Attention here: directingattention.substack.com
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Search continues for someone with an opinion on AI
Two years after ChatGPT’s release, the search continues for any single person with an opinion about AI.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
🛠️ Super simple tool to hide Bluesky feed by default: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nudge... 1. Replaces the feed with a small grey button 2. Click the button to show feed whenever you like Prevents unintended doomscrolling
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Why don’t we just stick with “tweets”? 1/ It’s as absurd as any of the other suggestions but we’re mostly used to it. 2/ It would piss Elon off.
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Which 4 words could wipe out $1tn of revenue? "AI, no ads please" (Or three words, if you're the kind of person who's rude to their AI) Read the full story here, along with a crappy AI illustration:
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"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1tn
Introducing a series on AI vs. ads
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
12challeng.es
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Absolutely love Toby Mather's contraction of 'enshittification' to 'e14n' here: 12challeng.es/p/a-typology... a16z: software is eating the world e14n: enshittification is eating software
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Working on a typology of social media feeds Have you come across something like this, in which case can you point me towards?
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Today on 12 Challenges, I'm giving Donald Glover a domain: 12challenges.substack.com/p/giving-glo...
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Giving Glover Gil.ga
My linkname pitch to Donald Glover
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Something I'm interested in is whether AI OSes will kill ad inventory How? Empowering people to access only the content they want, not the ads It's an optimistic scenario, but it could happen
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
I wrote about the insanity of not knowing the top TikToks for any given time period: 12challenges.substack.com/p/todays-top...
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
❓Want to know the most viewed videos on TikTok? Too bad. You can't. Which is insane Read more here: 12challenges.substack.com/p/todays-top...
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Today's top TikTok is... 🤷
The insanity of not knowing the most viewed videos on TikTok
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
📚 I just learned a new word in the course of my research for 12 Challenges: bryology (n.) The study of mosses and liverworts
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
📈 Psyched to be in the top 10 on Hacker News for my piece about how to survive a cease-and-desist from Big Tech!
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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Since using TikTok more actively for Challenge 2 (see post), I've been struck by: - How you have to become addicted to TikTok to understand it better - How idiosyncratic a content universe it is - How built-in manipulative designs like autoplay are in the app
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TrojanTok, or using social media against social media
I’ve given myself 12 Challenges to make the internet a bit better. Here, I explain The Plan for Challenge 2. The Plan: help thousands of people spend less time on TikTok with a Trojan Horse account ...
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