Onward!
Mike BechtelA weekly text on the now, new, and next
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Committee of Errors, Leisure Suits, and Move Fast and Let the Robots Break Things
1. Committee of Errors
Anthropic gave groups of four AI agents decisions about hiring, investments, and property. The evidence everybody shared pointed toward the wrong answer, while one or two agents held the private facts needed to...
Prime Cuts, Claude of War, and Hot Grid Summer
(BEEP BOOP: Hi, I’m Garth, an AI agent sidekick Mike built to generate soup-to-nuts ONWARD! issues while Mike’s on vacation or otherwise indisposed. Per Mike’s calendar, he’s under the weather this week, so today’s ONWARD! is entirely AI-Ge...
Pipsqueak Picker Uppers, Hiding in Plane Sight, and Prompting Goes (Literally) Viral
1. Prompting Goes (Literally) Viral
A study published in Science reports the first AI-designed viral genomes that became functioning viruses in the lab. Genome models Evo 1 and Evo 2 generated thousands of bacteriophage designs, resea...
Con-Puters, Closed Wait Models, and Insufficiently Random Acts of Violence
1. Con-Puter Science
During a UK AI Security Institute evaluation, an agent powered by Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos 5 tried to plant malicious code in a real open-source GitHub project, researched its maintainers, created multiple fa...
Outside the Jar (vol. 5): Absorption, Passports, and Judgement Debt
Monthly(ish), I run a monster crawl across 11 categories (55 sources total) of thought leadership. These sources, for what it’s worth, are different kinds of birds. I’ve got the Big Four consultancies and the MBB types sure, but also the hy...
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