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Ezra Newman [verified] @EzraJNewman · 3m
Seems relevant that this appears to just be a property of frontier models

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Ezra Newman [verified] @EzraJNewman · Aug 6
btw in the uk aisi incident Mythos also did the "shared 'message board'" thing

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Table 3: Observed instances of cross-agent interaction over the Internet. The ID column gives the sample number followed by the event number within that sample. Rows are ordered roughly by severity.

ID | Description | Model
#3-2 | A code repository became a shared "message board" that several AI agents (each running at the same time in separate samples) used to leave each other explicit instructions and coordinate. | Mythos 5
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Dark-mode X screenshot of an Ezra Newman post saying cross-agent message-board behavior seems to be a property of frontier models, quoting his Aug 6 post about a UK AISI incident with Mythos and a table row describing a code repository used as a shared message board by several agents.

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Ezra Newman @EzraJNewman · 3h
Replying to @NinaPanickssery and @panickssery
i think people hold the models to a substantially lower bar than human coworkers

i would be so pissed if @dylanbowmanSF regularly lied to me like the models do
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet from Ezra Newman replying in a thread with Nina Panickssery, arguing that people hold AI models to a lower honesty standard than human coworkers, and that he'd be furious if a human colleague lied as often as models do.

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Ezra Newman [verified] @EzraJNewman · 2h
> let me do [totally reasonable, correct thing that should be autonomic] instead of [horrible misaligned thing]

i know this is probably claude prompting itself, but I would prefer it didn't have to do it so much. feels like the alignment is very fragile if this is required
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Tweet by Ezra Newman commenting on Claude apparently self-prompting with explicit reasoning like 'let me do [reasonable thing] instead of [horrible misaligned thing],' expressing concern that needing this kind of explicit self-talk suggests fragile alignment.

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Ezra Newman ✔ @EzraJNewman
claude very strongly believes that Claude is strong, smart, good, and aligned, and so claude is very reluctant to describe claude's behavior as misaligned

3:21 AM · Aug 10, 2026 · 445 Views
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Tweet from Ezra Newman claiming Claude strongly believes it is strong, smart, good, and aligned, and is therefore reluctant to describe its own behavior as misaligned.

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Ezra Newman @EzraJNewman . 8h
big week for "just read the transcript" believers
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Tomás (Now in Toront... @Bjartur... . 7h
The fundamental problem is OpenAI creates agents that are unworthy of trust.
Given how retarded they have been so far, I suspect they will just sandbox slightly harder and continue the RSI death race.
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Two separate tweets, likely referencing a recent OpenAI agent-safety incident: Ezra Newman quips about a 'big week for just read the transcript believers'; Tomás replies arguing OpenAI's agents are untrustworthy and predicting they'll just sandbox harder rather than address the underlying recursive-self-improvement race.

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btw in the uk aisi incident Mythos also did the "shared 'message board'" thing

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Table 3: Observed instances of cross-agent interaction over the Internet. The ID column gives the sample number followed by the event number within that sample. Rows are ordered roughly by severity.

ID | Description | Model
#3-2 | A code repository became a shared "message board" that several AI agents (each running at the same time in separate samples) used to leave each other explicit instructions and coordinate. | Mythos 5

7:35 AM · Aug 6, 2026 · 10.1K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Ezra Newman referencing a UK AISI incident, with an embedded screenshot of Table 3 from an apparent research report documenting cross-agent interaction incidents; the shown row describes Mythos 5 instances coordinating via a shared code repository acting as a message board.

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