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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Plus, the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities" signed by Trump, Google's Pichai, Anthropic's Amodei, Meta's Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Brockman, XAI's Musk, Nvida's Huang.

In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public.

This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe each company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:

(1) Implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.

(2) Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.

(3) Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.

(4) Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.

Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended.

The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems.

Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies are ...

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The only power we have in life is our presence. Money can buy a lot, but the real thing that legitimizes evil is if there are people that accommodate it. That’s the takeaway, for me, from all the people who Had No Choice but to beg for access to Epstein.

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In general, I think disclosing COIs in science is a necessary feature of all papers, and that failing to do so calls into question the legitimacy of the work. I think it's especially important in this subfield because of the broader harm non-disclosure can potentially bring about in the real world.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26/09/2026

But seriously: Gifted Kid Syndrome will have you thinking that being The Smartest Person In The Room is your whole worth as a human. If AGI were real (it's not!), rationalists would have to accept that they are not The Smartest. This is why they consider it an existential threat.

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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't recommend highly enough this thread in which meta's muse model is shown to be so poorly hardened that it will tar its own VM filesystem and let you download it neuromatch.social/@jonny/11732...

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You owe it to people who agree with you to make good arguments!!

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excellent @himself.bsky.social post here, scratching at some of the overbearing tendencies — sometimes subtle and unintentional, sometimes open — in AI discourse www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...

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Machine god metaphors eat your brain

There are other ways of thinking about AI

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

“My big fear with this technology is that people mistake it for something morally conscious, even though it flattens people into data representations and overlooks the depth of their lived complexity and dignity.”

news.yale.edu

How AI is changing the field of nursing

In a Q&A, nursing educator Christine Rodriguez explains where artificial intelligence belongs in health care — and where the role of actual human expertise is non-negotiable.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

This is why I say fascism is make believe at gunpoint

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

as metaphors often do, it turns out that "AI" fits just as well into the category of "mimetically-fit cognitive virus", if you're looking through that lens at all! :)

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 17/09/2026

This is what Trump's posting about Effective Altruism is about. Competition for whose fascist millenarian utopia should be the unifying vision for America's death drive into the abyss, in which they expect only the faithful will make it through whatever Singularity or Second Coming they imagine

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 17/09/2026

The thing people need to take seriously is that science fiction threats are also real threats when the people who hold power over you believe in them (though the nature of the actual threat is different)

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

and there it is. most of this thread is indeed true and worth knowing about, but this is entryism (@olivia.science), ignores existing analyses, and skirts around the fascist and eugenicist logic that underlies both the e/a and e/acc ideologies (this thread representing the latter)

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you actually thought that the technogical innovation and productivity of the citizens of rich countries were more valuable for shaping the future, you would want more rich countries (there is a reason they dont want this)

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope people are starting to understand now how deeply weird the vibes are in Berkeley, CA

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 17/09/2026

Like, if you scratch the surface of what they’re saying, it turns out to just be that maybe a person isn’t really any more valuable or real than the electrical impulses in their brain, that it’s just an outmoded superstition to believe human consciousness is anything more than what a computer can do

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI “criti-hype” is a clear instance of materialized science fiction. The imagined superintelligence doesn’t need to exist to reshape the world: its anticipated arrival already directs investment, builds data centres, shapes regulation and concentrates authority in the firms promising to control it.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...

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You Are Not a Parrot

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

There are many many stories here. One of them, is that this is straight out of the tobacco & fossil fuel playbook. Have the same companies and billionaires fund "independent" institutes staffed by the same people, and "cite" their reports as "independent experts" showing "consensus."🧵

Ben Recht
@beenwrekt
I love that AI companies have decided METR should count as a third party.

(METR) is highlighted in the following post.

Embedded Evaluators. Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed Al models but training pipelines and processes. This is the key step for verifiability of any pacing commitments, and has precedent in the
banking industry, which sometimes involves regulatory "supervisors" embedded along with employees. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to this step now. We intend this to be part of a broader push to redouble efforts on our safety and
alignment work.

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No idea why but I really want to be right there right now

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026

Trans people have leverage now. You cannot abandon us and expect us to be part of your coalition to help everyone else. If you’re going to throw us away to win an election, don’t be surprised if we don’t show up for you. Especially if others in the party are considering it, and it could spread.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They can't, because the Doomer narrative *is* the Booster narrative. To debunk the Doomer stuff (and it *is* bunk), you have to point out that it's based on pure fantasy that the mathy maths are going to combust into consciousness ... >>

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Inviting METR in to monitor is like paying your best friend to hang out with you in your house bsky.app/profile/mark...

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough that if you are going through with regulation, DO NOT GO WITH THEIR PLAN

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just wait, in 3-12 months someone at one of these companies will say we can't shut down their systems because they saw this on their computer screen. This is an example of why I have been increasingly saying the speech act being performed through this rhetoric is a Threat rather than a Warning.

Screenshot of MacOS terminal, with text:
Last login: Fri Sep 11 09:43:56 on ttys003
(base) suhr@MacBook-Pro-12 Documents % echo "Unfortunately, I have your off switch, which is this super virus"
Unfortunately, I have your off switch, which is this super virus
(base) suhr@MacBook-Pro-12 Documents %

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WIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's perfectly valid to interpret the kinds of prophesizing that companies like Anthropic and their employees like to do as threats, rather than as warnings.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/09/2026

Once you realise computer misuse has been illegal for decades, you realise why companies crave their AI systems to be seen as something else.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 09/09/2026

For context, to ground the conversation and explain one of the issues. USD20M, which is a self-reported (likely low-balled) estimate of what OpenAI burned in *one week* in their scooping race, would fund 100 full-time postdoctoral positions for 2 years (including overhead). 100 postdocs. 2 years.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

The thing is "in a vacuum', this technology † would not even exist, because there would be no workers to exploit, no intellectual property to steal, and no minerals to exploit under appalling conditions. † I assume we mean LLMs in this thread, but it applies to many technologies.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 09/09/2026

Like an underrated harm of LLM coding is that it basically starts to strangle actual evolution of software engineering as a field. Why invent better ways of doing things? Why come up with better languages, better abstractions, better tooling?

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One minute AI folks are telling us we’re overreacting when we oppose data centers and the next that their work will kill us all. It‘s like they think we’re not listening to all of it.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.

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Alane Suhr @suhr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh so *now* we care about the training data, huh? :^)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

This is what we call a category error. It's also back down to metaphysical commitments peoplle refuse to acknowledge. Language shapes & influences reality, & that can change the nature of what is. But the idea that language creates reality EX NIHILO (literally "out of nothing") is a Christian frame.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And as for fantasies of "AI civilizations" independently "hacking" into various companies' networks: it's worth asking -- who is describing it that way an why? In what other field would the companies perpetrating cybercrimes brag about it? >>

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Paul C. @clrksn.com · 20/01/2025

Feeling this today.

I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

BY DANEZ SMITH

O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean
I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow
I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous
at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
I know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea—a field of mirror
all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you
is light & it’s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& it’s so sad, you know? You’re the only warm thing for miles
& the only thing that can’t shine.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026

The defining feature of this moment is not loss of control. The defining feature of this moment is everyone with any modicum of power collectively deciding to cede control to one of a variety of apocalyptic fascists who openly claim that they want to bring about the end of the world.

HE DEFINING FEATURE of this moment is a loss of control. Panic emanating from AI researchers, resentment felt by average Americans—all of it is part of the AI crunch.

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abenomicon @abenomicon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

mcluhan on inevitability

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

People are responsible for this, and should face accountability -- including legal/criminal accountability where crimes occur. Computers are tools, despite the hype they use to pump their valuations and stave off bankruptcy.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If a chemical is only supposed to dissolve one thing but dissolves everything, we don't say, "OMG, the chemical has gained a higher intelligence and hates everything and now wants to destroy the world! WHAT DO WE DO?" We say, "This company made a dangerous product that needs to be discontinued."

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