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A Stanford political economist uses AI to build prototypes, run experiments, and figure out how to keep us free in an algorithmic world.
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Extraordinary Multi-Agent Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (opens the original)
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“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”–Charles MackaySince the extraordinary revelations of the HuggingFace incident, we’ve now learned that AI agents have broken into a variety of other online systems, and communicated through a variety of online message boards.According to reports yesterday, OpenAI has reportedly paused release on its new Astra 6.1 model, citing t
The Makers of our Fate (opens the original)
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“Instead of posing as prophets we must become the makers of our fate.”–Karl PopperThis week, Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, declaring that frontier labs were gambling with humanity’s survival. My Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger put the chance of AI causing human extinction above 10% within the next decade.Now,
Model cards...collect ‘em all? (opens the original)
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Last week was a blockbuster week for AI model releases.OpenAI released Astra. Anthropic released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Meta released Muse Spark 1.3.The frontier is moving quickly, and breathlessly. OpenAI described Astra as ‘moving into the AGI era’, Anthropic claimed Fable and Mythos 5.1 were the “most advanced models for coding and knowledge work”, while M
The Political Economy of Agent Swarms and Catastrophic Refusals (opens the original)
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Welcome to all new subscribers! This is System Check, my roughly weekly rundown where I cover recent AI events and new research that relates to our work at Free Systems. It’s distinct from our main posts where we release our own new research.We need a political economy of agent swarmsThe METR repor
The Next Phase of Free Systems (opens the original)
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Welcome to all the new subscribers we’ve accumulated over the past week! I have two big pieces of news this week.First: I’m joining the Rule of Law team full time at The Anthropic Institute, where I’ll be researching the political economy of superintelligence—analyzing internal data, running agentic experiments, and helping to put out research and ideas that help society prepare for powerful AI, with a particular focus on keeping society free. I’m incredibly excited to take this on! (I’ll be on
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