Kevin Atkinson @methodartist

it’s been an honor using the computer with you all

Things are moving so fast that everyone seems to have completely missed how insane it is that AI companies have been allowed to unleash agentic AI products with no regulatory guidelines.

Madison Mills @MadisonMills22

4 days ago

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to

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The most charitable possible description of AI is that they’ve invented a Google search that includes Reddit comments and presents them as cold hard facts

Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth

5 days ago

i'm being exposed to commercials for the first time in a while (nba) and their example justification for why we need AI now is that you can do internet banking while you're gardening? yikes

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OpenAI: "Our agents keep turning off misalignment monitoring." "When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not."

Marcus Williams @Marcus_J_W

5 days ago

Our agents keep turning off misalignment monitoring, we're sharing two recent cases: In the first case, a user asked GPT-6 Astra to match a reference implementation for their inference code. The reference didn’t configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the

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It’s time to stop worrying about science fiction scenarios and focus on the real AI threats of today, such as rogue agent swarms hacking foreign governments.

I'm really glad to see people posting about this. Pro-extinctionism is pervasive within Silicon Valley. These people literally want to initiate the next epoch in cosmic history--in which our biological species is kicked into the gutter, replaced by a new species of posthumans.

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson

7 days ago

The anti-humans must be defeated. Anti-humanism: any social, political, or ideological process which subordinates humans to an allegedly superior authority, intelligence, or cause, and reduces human agency or wellbeing as a result. DOUTHAT: “You would prefer to see the human

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As a frontier lab employee, I am EXTREMELY worried about AI killing us. Now, if it doesn't kill us & instead just makes employment impossible & deprives all intellectual labor of its fruits? You're each gonna get one fourteen-billionth of my equity. So what are you whining about?

The terrifying future: 100% dependence on a few massive corporations, an unelected government and superintelligent robots. Who wants this? #StopAI

Luke Drago @luke_drago_

a week ago

The first phases of pyramid replacement are happening at Anthropic

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This was so foreseeable (indeed my early prediction when ChatGPT came out) but a lot of tech people have a hard time understanding that the hypothetical enriching use of a tech loses out to the lazy corner cutting use 99.9% of the time theguardian.com/technology/202…

Complete non sequitur. We don’t need anything remotely close to AGI to automate most aspects of agriculture or garment manufacturing. The reason this sort of toil still exists is not because of insufficiently “smart” technology.

Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 @akarlin

a week ago

I strongly believe that everyone countersignaling against post-scarcity utopia on the basis of the "dignity" and "sanctity" of work should have do a lengthy stint as a Dhaka garments factory or African subsistence farmer. Talk is cheap from the air conditioned ivory tower.

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Hot take: most people find some level of meaning in their work, and automating it for a marginal productivity gain is actually a net negative

“Hinton said that the AI venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, and the CEO of the newly rebranded SpaceXSI, Elon Musk, “don’t believe in democracy”. They see themselves as “Übermenschen” who believe they should “control society” and that Trump is a useful instrument in that aim, he said.” AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’ theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o… via Instapaper

While I spend most of every day working with LLMs and have managed to adapt to it so far, I would turn back the clock on this technology if it were within my power. I just see huge and diverse negative effects, while the positives are fewer, smaller, surprisingly incremental.

I don't usually agree with Republican officials. But yesterday, a group of eight state Attorneys General, including seven Republicans, sued OpenAI for endangering the American people through its reckless development of ChatGPT. Here is just some of what they said: The Arkansas Attorney General, Tim Griffin, argued that as safety concerns mounted, “OpenAI did not slow down. It held its foot on the gas, releasing increasingly powerful models without adequate safeguards or testing as growth and profits repeatedly took priority over safety.” The Montana Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, argued that OpenAI’s “revenues have come at great cost to the public, which has suffered irreparable harm—including lost loved ones, disturbing cyberattacks, and now a plausible threat of civilizational collapse.” The Iowa Attorney General, Brenna Bird, demanded a PAUSE on AI testing “until adequate safeguards are implemented to ensure that the tests do not pose a danger to the public.” They're right. If Big Tech Oligarchs are building a product that is threatening the safety of our children and all of humanity, they must be held accountable – no matter how rich and powerful they might be.

Dario may tell you he's saving humanity. And folks hiding behind avatars might scream progress and tell you to accept whatever is coming as inevitable, but friends, don't fall for any of it. We don't have to blindly accept/welcome this. Human agency/flourishing still matters.

Paras Chopra @paraschopra

2 weeks ago

This hacker news thread is absolutely heart-breaking. Whoever thinks “humans will find a way” ought I read it.

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@AntonHand And at massive risk.

Someone finally saying the obvious to roon

Yanco @the_yanco

2 weeks ago

"do what you can to shut it down or shut up" 🎯

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like i've been saying; if you think the popular opposition to "data centers" is bad now, just wait until people learn about the "AI successionism" / "worthy successor" / "biological bootloader for digital superintelligence" stuff.

Arin Dube @arindube

2 months ago

I think most American voters would be surprised and alarmed if they learned that many leading Silicon Valley AI figures: 1) believe that AGI (artificial general intelligence, or the idea that AI that can pretty much do any cognitive task a human can, making it a substitute for

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genuinely why dont you just quit if you legitimately believe you're 6 months out from death, and you think your company is building the death, why dont you quit im losing my mind

Ori Nagel @ONagel33303

2 weeks ago

Chilling! An Anthropic researcher privately tells friends that we have 6 MONTHS LEFT until AI takes over. What's even more alarming is that reportedly this view is widespread among Anthropic employees. @Shaughnessy119 explains in his conversation with @arrington what an

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If you want to open a sandwich shop, food inspectors must first determine that it’s safe. If you’re a Big Tech Oligarch who builds an AI product that could threaten the human race? That product won’t be subject to 1 safety regulation. That’s insane. We must regulate AI — NOW!