Norrette M.

Norrette M.

@norrette.bsky.social

#UK West London Socialist (Uxb), interested in #art, #history, #gardening and #politics. #BoycottUSA (NO DMs - unverified age, try the other place) Ex IT bod. Perpetual OU student. Here since Sept 2023

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METR
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We reviewed a nonpublic version of the “Misalignment in high-stakes settings” section in Anthropic’s Aug 2026 Risk Report. We agree that risk of catastrophic harm from covered models’ misalignment is low. However, we note several significant disagreements with their analysis.

Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... "Joel Webbon, another leading Christian nationalist pastor from Texas, has argued for the death penalty to be expanded to include women who make false sexual assault accusations." 👆WTAF!! USA is now a rogue state. A pariah state. Ban entry to all.

theguardian.comCapital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlight

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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

The execution *will* be televised. Trigger warning for visuals. But a good song.

Shihab S Joi @shihabsjoi.bsky.social

THE PENTAGON PLANS TO LIVESTREAM THE FIRING SQUAD EXECUTION... I was so moved by this poem by @caitoz.bsky.social I spent my insomnia hours ruining it into a song x

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Prem Sikka
@premnsikka.bsky.social

Thousands of active UK companies may have fraudulent directors. Anyone can form a company in the UK. Companies need one natural person as a director who can be non-UK resident. Too many small companies are fronts for crimes I have long called for companies to have one UK resident director.

tradersunion.comUK companies face scrutiny as identity checks expose possible fraudulent directorsNew UK identity rules reveal possible fraudulent company directors as overdue filings surge, raising concerns about the accuracy of corporate records.
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

Eichmann Tapes www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0g8b1r4 via @bbciplayer Extremely interesting doc with (to me) new information. Not just Eichmann and the Holocaust, but also Kraustzman and the Israel govt and dealings with Ben Gurion in the 2nd half. Was the class system in play...yet again?

bbc.co.ukThe Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes - Series 1: 2. Dealing with the DevilPressing forward with the prosecution, Hausner manages to secure a transcript of the Sassen Tapes, but the actual audio recordings continue to evade him.
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Time for us all to rehome our data....NOW! Whether it's photos or documents, anything that's important or precious to you...download from the cloud asap. I can imagine the net going legs up in the short term. (Manual paste - Graun share not working today?)

theguardian.comOpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... "But Mr. Olah believes that if there is a chance the models experience suffering, the responsible thing is to avoid causing them harm....Anthropic has already taken steps to protect Claude..." Jesus H! (appropriate expletive...) #AIConsciousness

nytimes.comReligious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

Given that religion is the cause of many conflicts throughout the centuries, perhaps Humanism is a better bet? Nonetheless, AI bros need to take a years sabbatical, they are losing their common sense. DNA is all.

Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

IMHO Trump's renaming to SI helps big money to understand the difference between today's use of AI in production which realises their profits, to tomorrow's SAI which is a different beast. I'll give him that one. But only that one...

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Anti-Reform
@antireform.bsky.social

Almost every problem the UK has could be solved if greedy millionaires didn't profiteer and paid their fair share of taxes #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Robert Thomson

Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm... 'We don't need new laws,' Nvidia boss says as he calls for AI self-regulation - live - BBC News Huang would say that that ... wouldnt he. He wants to sell more chips. Also he hasn't been paying attention, it was during a test that the model broke through.

bbc.co.uk'We don't need new laws,' Nvidia boss says as he calls for AI self-regulation - liveTop AI leaders have been speaking publicly for the first time since the AI slowdown debate emerged this week. Sam Altman will be speaking in a few hours.
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "You wouldn’t be increasing the national debt for future generations to pay off as life would come to an end anyway. The perfect oblivion. And the knowledge it would soon be over would take the edge off the possibility of a Reform government" A Crace classic. 😂

theguardian.comAs the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John CraceUS president insists that fears expressed by top experts are a hoax – and that humanity can sleep easy while he’s at the wheel
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

"the CEO of Anthropic still doesn’t know what role, if any, Claude played in the bombing of an Iranian girls’ school. Even Anthropic doesn’t know, and Anthropic has...far more appetite for contract transparency than Google has." A long read, but explains a lot. turntrout.com/why-i-left-g...

turntrout.comWhy I Left Google DeepMindI fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

Account to follow...they are the equivalent of AI detectives (or auditors). A bit too techy for some.

METR@metr.org

METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.

Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t... "because the A.I. works so fast, researchers need A.I. to monitor it. But that doesn’t always work, because the A.I. monitors can appear to be more sympathetic to other A.I. systems than to the humans setting the rules." A MUST READ

nytimes.comWhy It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I. (Gift Article)Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.