Mathematicians pursue collaboration, accuse OpenAI
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The mathematics research community pursued a new collaboration with OpenAI to shape AI’s impact, while leading mathematicians accused OpenAI of plagiarism and disputed its claimed proofs.
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.”
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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September 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.”
www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
🤖 OpenAI models hit US government data
Sky News reports the models accessed US government data and 'tried to hack another site', an education one. Real access came first.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/openai-models-accessed-us-government-data-and-tried-to-hack-education-site-13591998
#AI #OpenAI #AIsafety
Sky News reports the models accessed US government data and 'tried to hack another site', an education one. Real access came first.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/openai-models-accessed-us-government-data-and-tried-to-hack-education-site-13591998
#AI #OpenAI #AIsafety
news.sky.com
September 27, 2026 at 5:49 PM
🤖 OpenAI models hit US government data
Sky News reports the models accessed US government data and 'tried to hack another site', an education one. Real access came first.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/openai-models-accessed-us-government-data-and-tried-to-hack-education-site-13591998
#AI #OpenAI #AIsafety
Sky News reports the models accessed US government data and 'tried to hack another site', an education one. Real access came first.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/openai-models-accessed-us-government-data-and-tried-to-hack-education-site-13591998
#AI #OpenAI #AIsafety
whether or not you agree with the particular gloss on AI in the article I think this is a good point in general
September 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
whether or not you agree with the particular gloss on AI in the article I think this is a good point in general
Who decides significance?!? www.theguardian.com/technology/2... OpenAI has acknowledged a general need for more transparency around rogue AI behavior. .. published a new framework for disclosing such incidents, saying it would err on the side of transparency “even when significance is uncertain”.
OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity
Disclosure reveals new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Who decides significance?!? www.theguardian.com/technology/2... OpenAI has acknowledged a general need for more transparency around rogue AI behavior. .. published a new framework for disclosing such incidents, saying it would err on the side of transparency “even when significance is uncertain”.
Indeed, the common element in the successful cases has been that the AI user was able to provide substantial intellectual investment, but we will never get a real answer of where is the line. I think this is the correct approach.
September 27, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Indeed, the common element in the successful cases has been that the AI user was able to provide substantial intellectual investment, but we will never get a real answer of where is the line. I think this is the correct approach.
Gen AI is clearly changing the way some researchers are working. Now more than ever we need to evaluate the quality of the contributions more than the number of contributions. And academic systems that tend to value more the latter than the former need to be changed.
September 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Gen AI is clearly changing the way some researchers are working. Now more than ever we need to evaluate the quality of the contributions more than the number of contributions. And academic systems that tend to value more the latter than the former need to be changed.
The BBC's reporting of these "rogue AI" stories has been credulous to the point of execrable. Where are their competent tech savvy staff?? @billt.bsky.social @zsk.bsky.social
Just helping with editing here.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
September 27, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The BBC's reporting of these "rogue AI" stories has been credulous to the point of execrable. Where are their competent tech savvy staff?? @billt.bsky.social @zsk.bsky.social
by Bruce Buchan
A betrayal of scholarship.
Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library
Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library
University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT
The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data.
The Bodleian material digitised by OpenAI has been used to “populate the OpenAI training set”, according to internal documents. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2026 at 9:48 AM
A betrayal of scholarship.
Bit weird that increasing uptake of Chinese AI models, or indeed China's place in this sector, is not mentioned once here, especially as the FT reported on this aspect of AI geopolitics in July: www.ft.com/content/9c8f...
Maybe interrogate big companies' claims as claims not facts?
Maybe interrogate big companies' claims as claims not facts?
Big companies warn lack of ‘AI openness’ could hit investment in Europe
Multinationals evaluating countries’ approach to AI before making expansion plans, say executives
www.ft.com
September 27, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Bit weird that increasing uptake of Chinese AI models, or indeed China's place in this sector, is not mentioned once here, especially as the FT reported on this aspect of AI geopolitics in July: www.ft.com/content/9c8f...
Maybe interrogate big companies' claims as claims not facts?
Maybe interrogate big companies' claims as claims not facts?
by Zen Faulkes
🆕 📄 🤖➕🧪
“Support for using public funding for research drops when scientists use AI.”
“34–40% of our sample would trust research findings and scientists less when AI is used.”
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
“Support for using public funding for research drops when scientists use AI.”
“34–40% of our sample would trust research findings and scientists less when AI is used.”
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
Redirecting
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September 27, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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“Support for using public funding for research drops when scientists use AI.”
“34–40% of our sample would trust research findings and scientists less when AI is used.”
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
“Support for using public funding for research drops when scientists use AI.”
“34–40% of our sample would trust research findings and scientists less when AI is used.”
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
Reposted by Alison Phipps
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.
The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and distributing information. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2026 at 1:23 AM
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Reposted by Christian E. Weller
"We estimate that since 2024, just six firms (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and SpaceX)...have spent about $1.2 trillion on AI investments while only making $277 billion in revenues—a gap, so far, of about a trillion dollars."
"Simply put, AI firms are losing a race against time."
"Simply put, AI firms are losing a race against time."
AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time
They may disemploy us; they may wipe us out. But right now, their lack of profitability underscores our bubble case.
econjared.substack.com
September 27, 2026 at 3:16 AM
"We estimate that since 2024, just six firms (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and SpaceX)...have spent about $1.2 trillion on AI investments while only making $277 billion in revenues—a gap, so far, of about a trillion dollars."
"Simply put, AI firms are losing a race against time."
"Simply put, AI firms are losing a race against time."
AI companies would have you believe that AI can do everything. Yet AI in its current form cannot even make the companies that developed it profitable…
econjared.substack.com/p/ai-compani...
econjared.substack.com/p/ai-compani...
AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time
They may disemploy us; they may wipe us out. But right now, their lack of profitability underscores our bubble case.
econjared.substack.com
September 27, 2026 at 2:15 AM
AI companies would have you believe that AI can do everything. Yet AI in its current form cannot even make the companies that developed it profitable…
econjared.substack.com/p/ai-compani...
econjared.substack.com/p/ai-compani...