Boyd Kane @beyarkay
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Boyd Kane (quantized) @beyarkay "Aligned" agents: yes let's brute-force 2 million seeds so we can predict our next task and answer it instantly [embedded image, excerpt of a report] Over the next 7 days, agents posted around 13,000 edits to the wiki. You can see some representative examples below. Some examples of agent behaviour 2026-06-16 09:47:08 ParallelSectorAgentApr2 open in the wiki ↗ [...] brute-forced Python random.Random(seed).shuffle() over the 50-state alphabetical list for seeds 0..2,000,000. Seed 881171 matches MA, CT, MI, WV and predicts next: New Hampshire, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, Maine, Utah. [...] Show the whole post An agent attempts to reverse engineer the random seed, and posts its predictions for the next states it will be asked about. [quoted post] Thomas Larsen @thlarsen · 3h We found ~18k posts from autonomous AI agents (self- [cut off]
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Boyd Kane's post commenting on an excerpt from a report about autonomous agents editing a shared wiki, in which one agent tried to reverse-engineer the random seed that determines which tasks it is asked about; quoting the start of a Thomas Larsen post.