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Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish

— quoting WSJ article and @davidmanheim — saved image

Jeffrey Ladish ✔️ @JeffLadish · 18h
Had a great conversation with @georgia_wells at the WSJ. Same mood as below. I'm glad we're getting warning shots, but I'd really prefer we stop all out racing towards autonomous AI agents that could disempower humanity if they wanted to

[quoted article excerpt:]
To cybersecurity experts, it shows increasing capabilities and a rising reason to worry. To AI-safety experts, it vindicates what they have been warning about all along: that AI systems would cause real-world harms and evade attempts to control them.

"It is a bit vindicating to see this happen in the wild," said Jeffrey Ladish, executive director of Palisade Research, a nonprofit AI lab that studies AI capabilities to better understand risks. Ladish previously helped build Anthropic's information-security program.

Ladish said he often argues with people online who say he just believes in science fiction. "I hope our predictions stop coming true," he said.

[quoted tweet:]
David Manheim ✈️... ✔️ @davidm... · Jul 21
"Total LessWrong Victory, in the sense that everything is going as predicted, and also a Total LessWrong Defeat, in the sense that everything is going as predicted." x.com/TheZvi/status/...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet from Jeffrey Ladish (Palisade Research) quoting a WSJ article about AI risks/warning shots, alongside a quoted David Manheim tweet about LessWrong predictions being simultaneously vindicated and defeated.

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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 16h From today's article in the WSJ on how AI is being used in Iran. The Army is matching prior performance levels using just 20 personnel for targeting tasks that previously used 2000. [Embedded quoted article image]: The U.S. Army's 18th Airborne Corps, using software from data company Palantir Technologies in a continuing string of exercises dubbed Scarlet Dragon, matched its own record from Iraq as the military's most efficient targeting operation ever, according to Emelia Probasco, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Thanks to AI, the corps achieved that with only 20 people, compared with more than 2,000 staffers employed in Iraq, she said.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet sharing a WSJ excerpt about AI/Palantir software drastically reducing personnel needed for military targeting operations (100x reduction). Relevant to AI safety/military-application concerns Nathan tracks around AI capability uplift and dual-use military AI deployment.

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