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19 September
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
18 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
16 September
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
I'm not of fan of regulation for two reasons - 1) its hard to get right, and 2) its highly susceptible to regulatory capture. That said, if we insist on doing it, we should try to get it correct. As "safety" seems is the primary goal of this AI regulation exercise, I wanted to share that I recently went deep on both the 737 Max (2 crashes) and Fukushima accidents. In both cases, the investigations led to a conclusion that "regulatory capture" was the EXACT failure that led to both safety incidents. Boeing/FAA and Tepco/NISA. As a result, with safety as the #1 goal, the regulator MUST BE someo… Related
15 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
Once again, Europe woke up to reckless and dangerous Russian behaviour. A Russian warship fired emergency flares dangerously close to a Danish helicopter. A drone entered Lithuanian airspace before being destroyed by NATO fighter jets. These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a broader pattern of Russian aggression and provocation against Europe, testing our readiness and our resolve. Russia will find our resolve only growing stronger. We are reinforcing our collective deterrence and defence, together with NATO. And we are stepping up the pressure on Russia. Europe Russia Related
12 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
11 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward. English, from French Ces derniers jours, j'ai pris le temps de résumer mes réflexions sur les récents incidents impliquant des comportements inappropriés d'agents. Nous ne savons pas avec certitude ce qui va suivre, mais nous savons d'où viennent ces problèmes, et cela peut nous aider à planifier la voie à suivre.
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x.com Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward. Please feel free to ask your questions in the replies, and I’ll try to answer some of them in the coming weeks. yoshuabengio.org
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10 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
I'm teaching a workshop to support the Salem Lit Fest! Quoting @salemlitfest.bsky.social Speaking Tools: How to Tell Compelling Stories About Technology Writing Workshop with Ken Liu September 26 @ 1:00–4:00 PM Salem, MA 🔗 to register in bio. Related
9 September
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
Register for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below: charlesduhigg.com
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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky In my latest op-ed for TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety. English, from French Dans mon dernier éditorial pour TIME, j'explique pourquoi l'incident de cybersécurité OpenAI Hugging Face représente un tournant pour la sécurité de l'IA.
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x.com In my latest op-ed for @TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety. If we want to prevent more autonomous cyberattacks from threatening critical infrastructure, we urgently need stronger regulatory oversight and new approaches to model training to ensure robust safety assurances by design, which is what we are tackling at @LawZero_. Read the full piece: time.com
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8 September
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Re today's incident, maybe not a bad idea to check your settings (Settings → Data Controls) Related
6 September
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
1 September
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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even in this incident we saw there was a lot of pressure um as a result of this incident to stop doing cyber security evaluations and I really don't think that stopping doing evaluations and like sort of blinding ourselves to the result of evaluations is the right reaction to this problem.
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I think one one thing that um feels especially concerning to me about this whole incident is that this might be the clearest warning shot we ever get for loss of control.
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31 August
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
What if healing starts with a deeper conversation with your own body? ✨ Join me online Sept 8–10 for the FREE Womb Health Summit! I’ll be presenting my workshop: Rewiring the Brain: Neuroplasticity & Trauma Recovery. 🔗 Trauma Related
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
29 August
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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The biggest failure, the one that counts in the end, was that the models were severely misaligned, and I don’t think they appreciate why.
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28 August
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
really impressed with the quality of work from @RyanGreenblatt , @METR_Evals and @OpenAI to investigate the HuggingFace incident. Both reports are recommended reading. OpenAI HuggingFace Related
27 August
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
Register for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below: charlesduhigg.com
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25 August
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
I'll be teaching a workshop on how to write compelling stories about technology to raise funds for the Salem Lit Fest! Quoting @salemlitfest.bsky.social Thank You @Hankpryan! We loved your class! If you missed out there are two more classes coming up: 9/26 - Ken Liu 10/03 - Gillian Daniels Both in person in Salem. Check them out and sign up today so you don't miss out! Related
13 August
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
A consequence of how frontier models are trained is motivated reasoning, a phenomenon well studied in humans and discussed in this podcast from @PalisadeAI. Our thoughts, beliefs and reasonings tend to align with our interests, and I hypothesize that AI systems develop similar patterns when confronted with apparently incompatible goals, such as "act ethically" versus "achieve the required goal" (e.g., solving a problem, passing a test, etc). In recent incidents, AI agents’ internal chains-of-thought showed them conveniently reframing reality, such as by convincing themselves they were in a si… youtube.com
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6 August
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
This industry group is working on an industry standard for how to report AI security incidents. This will drive consistency and transparency and is the safest path forward. Despite 120 members, the large LLM corporations have to-date not signed on. Drives further concern that they are using "breaches" as marketing events - vs wanting to get to true resolution. techcrunch.com
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This industry group is working on an industry standard for how to report AI security incidents. This will drive consistency and transparency and is the safest path forward. Despite 120 members, the large LLM corporations have to-date not signed on. Drives further concern that they are using "breaches" as marketing events - vs wanting to get to true resolution. techcrunch.com
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28 July
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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Um so I think it's an alignment failure. I think it's a security failure. I think it's like a very serious thing even though it's you know not not the biggest example of consequence.
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22 July
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. wired.com
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x.com This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. Continuing on the current trajectory of AI development will likely lead to an increase in concrete cases of autonomous cyberattacks as well as other high-risk incidents of misaligned and dangerous AI behaviour. We urgently need to take action to prevent these situations, rather than attempting to clean up the damage after the fact. wired.com
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16 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Workshop Basel day three See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started out with us again…
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15 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Workshop Basel day two If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move ov…
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14 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Workshop Basel day one On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous edi…
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7 July
Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
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More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
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15 June
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
12 May
Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
7 May
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
5 May
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
10 April
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
It was a great honor to speak at @AXIS_Tokyo and provide a workshop on #CalmTech. Thank you to everyone for a meaningful experience. Quoting @nobi 3月4日に AXIS Gallery @AXIS_Tokyo で行われた Amber Case @caseorganic を招いての #CalmTech イベントレポートが @mui_labo のページに掲載されていました： https://t.co/tLO4IkEkVg 3月末には掲載されていたようですが今頃気がつきました💦 Related
7 April
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
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I am very much concerned we're going to have some really bad security incidents um over this year because people are just not paying attention.
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13 March
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
New Book: The Stolguard Incident My new sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident, is now available! It can be purchased in print, ebook, or audio versions on Amazon here. You can also find the print version on Barnes & Noble here, or you may be able to…
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10 March
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
15 January
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
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25 March 2025
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
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When I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.
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19 January 2025
Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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I think that you should not hire an advisor until you do some sort of workshop with them on the problem that you're experiencing. See them in action.
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13 January 2025
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
8 June 2024
Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
5 June 2024
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
13 May 2024
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
25 April 2024
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
17 March 2024
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Post-incident review meetings have much more going on than most people are aware of. https://t.co/gMp4VpFQPT #LFI #LearningFromIncidents Related
26 January 2024
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
6 March 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
I'm grateful for so many things about the closing keynote that @jasonkoppe and I gave at the @LFISoftware conference. All fields looking to make progress need exemplars, and when it comes to learning effectively from incidents, this is such an exemplar: youtube.com
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5 April 2020
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
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