๐ŸŒ Lobsters

AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop

Abstract: AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple solution: Not only do current approaches to AI agent design impede effective human oversight, but the cognitive capacities required for it are also themselves degraded by extended use of AI systems. This position paper argues that current approaches to the development and deployment of AI agent systems do...
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AI Socialism: Who Will Own the Automated Future?

Article URL: https://cosmopolity.substack.com/p/ai-socialism-who-will-own-the-automated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860291 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/tech/not-everyone-thinks-ai-will-kill-us-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860377 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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It's Time We Talked About AI and Software Security

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/its-time-we-talked-about-ai-and-software Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860383 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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The AI-First Organization

Article URL: https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/The-AI-First-Organization.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860420 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Financing the AI Buildout [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/4c_Van-Nieuwerburgh.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860708 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI Data Center Are Monkey Business [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g7doI0BGrs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860953 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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AI Political Alignment Quiz

Article URL: https://aipoliticalcube.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860999 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Top AI companies probing security incidents

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-anthropic-thousands-ai-security-incidents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861517 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
๐ŸŒ TheVerge

OpenAI pauses training of its โ€˜most capable modelsโ€™

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September [โ€ฆ]
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Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids [โ€ฆ]
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Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song

I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well as many other artists, including Freddie Gibbs, Bad Bunny, Mac Miller, BTS, and even Ludwig Gรถransson's score [โ€ฆ]