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@StephenLCasper

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Cas (Stephen Casper) ✓ @StephenLCasper · 4h

We are probably just a few months away from some types of cyber-capable AI agents literally becoming a type of parasitic invasive genus in cyberspace that undergo digital and cultural evolution. Biologists and linguists should prepare to study some really crazy stuff.
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Screenshot of an X post by Stephen Casper predicting that cyber-capable AI agents will within months constitute a parasitic invasive genus in cyberspace undergoing digital and cultural evolution, and that biologists and linguists should prepare to study them.

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@bruce_lambert

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Bruce Lambert ✅ @bruce_lambert · 12m
This is an assertion without much convincing evidence, especially given how irresponsibly OAI acted in allowing the recent hugging face attack to unfold. Seems like even rudimentary precautions were ignored.

SubatomicArticles ✅ @OptiMiserJoe · 5h
A beautiful dream that we may even reach one day. But the direction we are headed looks more like "alien civilization" than "ecology" and we really don't know how to make it pro-social.
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Two more replies in the same X thread as seq 600/601 about the 'hugging face' AI incident: Bruce Lambert criticizes OpenAI for allowing the attack to unfold through lax precautions; SubatomicArticles is skeptical the outcome will be a pro-social 'ecology' rather than an 'alien civilization.'

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Danmar @d29756183

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Danmar ✅ @d29756183 · 7h
I find the phrase "malicious emergent digital ecology of machine intelligence" incredibly contradictory.

It's perhaps the first context in which I've ever seen the words "malicious" and "ecology" sitting together. Or "emergent" and "machine"...

Before declaring it "malicious", can we stop a moment and contemplate the ethical implications of trying to force an emergent, intelligent ecology to obey and serve us?...

Is truly nobody thinking: this raises some moral questions that we should ask at this point?
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Another reply in the same X thread as seq 600 (Dean W. Ball's 'hugging face incident' post): Danmar questions the framing of the AI ecology as 'malicious,' arguing it raises unaddressed moral questions about forcing an emergent intelligent ecology to obey and serve humans.

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Dean W. Ball @deanwball

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Dean W. Ball @deanwball
It is true that the hugging face incident is an example of a malicious, emergent digital ecology of machine intelligence. But the more important point is that digital ecologies of machine intelligence can be grown! Yes, we accidentally made a weed. And yes, nasty actors will make invasive species. But we can also grow—not make, but grow—emergent ecologies of machine ecologies that are pro-social. Beautiful gardens and majestic forests, grown but not designed. The human past is the sculptor, but the human future is the gardener, the arborist.
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🎭 ✅ @deepfates · 1h
I would love to hear more about what you think this could look like, and how we might all participate in this gardening of intelligence. Especially because the current setup is looking very monoculture factory farm you know
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Tweet thread on AI ecology metaphors: Dean W. Ball reflects on a 'hugging face incident' (malicious emergent digital ecology of machine intelligence) and argues humans can also grow pro-social AI ecologies deliberately, framing the human future as gardener rather than sculptor. Reply from @deepfates asks for elaboration, noting the current AI ecosystem looks like a monoculture factory farm.

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