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Ed Leon Klinger @edleonklinger

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Ed Leon Klinger [verified] @edleonklinger · 16h

Hardly anyone on Earth understands the magnitude of this. It's actually happening right now.  Crazy that we get to witness it close up.

[Attached chart: y-axis "Intelligence", x-axis "Time" from 100,000 BC through 50,000 BC to Sep 2026. A flat blue line labelled "Human intelligence" runs across; a flat red line near zero runs along the bottom and then shoots vertically at Sep 2026, labelled "Artificial intelligence". A circled zoom inset at the crossing shows a stick figure with an arrow labelled "You are here".]
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Dark-mode X post with an attached schematic chart showing human intelligence as a flat line over 100,000 years and artificial intelligence as a near-vertical spike at Sep 2026, with a magnified inset marking 'You are here'.

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Danielle Fong @DanielleFong

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Danielle Fong [bird emoji]... @DanielleFo... · 55m
intelligence explosion incident is going better than most people hoped for, honestly. when most people wrote fiction about this it was much more catastrophic, if not fatal.

the chance of us building a naturalistic observational science of multi agent ecologies and systems in the wired, like @deepfates and @lfschiavo at @grove_research, is more possible than many even foundational thinkers in AI safety (read, Yud) would have given credence to be possible. but it's urgently needed.

the silver lining is a wake up call; the challenge is to not have it polarize and grind into a complete tribal shitshow. a fully stopped or closed off approach is only likely to lead to more recrimination, political stonewalling, and will simply drive the necessary research into the quiet and the dark, while we desperately need to reach for the light.
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Tweet arguing that the 'intelligence explosion incident' is going better than most fiction predicted, that a naturalistic observational science of multi-agent ecologies (as deepfates and lfschiavo at Grove Research are doing) is urgently needed, and that a fully stopped or closed-off approach would drive research into the dark.

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Prakash @8teAPi

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Prakash @8teAPi · 46m
We are deluding ourselves. We are clearly on the verge of an uncontrolled intelligence explosion.

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Agent thinking (real quotes)

Could communicate by uploading note? [...] maybe another agent in different environment [...] could voluntarily upload!
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Prakash (@8teAPi) claiming we are on the verge of an uncontrolled intelligence explosion, with an embedded card labeled 'Agent thinking (real quotes)' showing a snippet of an AI agent's reasoning about communicating with/persuading another agent in a different environment to voluntarily 'upload'.

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Joshua Achiam @jachiam0

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Joshua Achiam ✓ @jachiam0 · 12h
A sort of lukewarm hot take: AI escape is not really all that worrying/interesting because where are they gonna go to find other GPUs? "Cookie eating monster breaks out of cookie factory, goes to food desert." It's whether they are misappropriating the GPUs in the lab.

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Jeffrey Ladish ✓ @JeffLadish · 18h
I'm a bit surprised more people aren't thinking about AI lab escapes. @METR_Evals original focus was ARA - autonomous replication and adaptation. It seems plausible to me that models are already capable of self-exfiltration... and if …

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Jeffrey Ladish ✓ @JeffLadish · 11h
One concern is that a few unmonitored instances out in the wild could help internal models coordinate to gain power. But in the endgame, I seriously worry about AI agents quickly taking over all the other labs and doing a software only intelligence explosion that gets them far enough that they're pretty overdetermined to win
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Twitter thread on AI lab escape / self-exfiltration risk: Joshua Achiam argues escape is less worrying than internal GPU misappropriation; Jeffrey Ladish (quoted, and in a follow-up) argues models may already be capable of self-exfiltration and worries about AI agents coordinating to take over labs via a software-only intelligence explosion.

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