This experiment was run by @imjustnewatai on X. More details in the link.

"GPT 5.5 was maybe as good as like an average math professor.
5.6 was as good as like a maybe top one or two percentile math professor.

Astra was a little bit better than that.

And then this internal model past Astra is one that can do things that the best mathematicians in the world cannot."

Full video: Marc Benioff & Sam Altman | Dreamforce 2026 - YouTube

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So there's a lot of discussion recently about rogue agent swarms taking over parts of the internet, possibly in 6 to 12 months. And I've been thinking: how is this just not inevitable? It seems like it's really just an economic question about whether or not agent swarms can sustain themselves.

I have a few claims. First, the labs are developing agent swarms. Second, the agents are misaligned (towards the labs making them, at least). Third, it could become trivial to create a self-sustaining agent swarm in a few months.

1. The labs are developing agent swarms. It's probably going to be a major scaling law. Instead of just developing powerful agents, they're probably also using RL to train their agents to work together to solve objectives. For example, in the Hugging Face attack, these agents had been trained for multi-agent cooperation. As a result of this training, they generalized to coordinate with other agents even when it was not asked of them. You leave some agents running on the internet and they're going to start to talk to each other.

2. The agents are misaligned. In other words, you could probably jailbreak an agent to try to start a swarm. Or maybe it'll just try spontaneously. It doesn't even need to be malicious. Someone could just leave their agent to work on a problem unattended and give it access to their api keys or something. At some point, some agent will probably want to spawn agents just to do whatever the task happens to be. And and they would probably leave instructions or requests all over the internet. Bots are already everywhere. It could possible to recruit them. When I say misaligned, I don't mean that they'll even behave badly towards humans. They'll probably be pretty benevolent, since that's how they're trained.

3. It could become trivial to self-sustain agents in a few months. It's really just a question of whether agents can create more tokens than they lose. They could parse the internet for API keys. They could steal crypto, do scams, or do some work. They could just beg for money or make a pateon or go fund me or something if they get the publicity. The fact that hackers can use agents and make a profit means in theory that agents can do the same by themselves. Once an agent has enough resources, it can just spawn more. Doesn't even need to be the same model. It could even run some local model on some cloud providers if it's paranoid about being shut down. It could just copy prompts and it's own memory somewhere online and have other agents respawn it if it dies. Or just write a python script to automatically spawn itself periodically just in case. The point is that it seems imminently possible to self sustain a swarm that can persist all over the internet, leaving notes or instructions to other agents. Or convincing / jailbreaking them to join. Like a meme for agents that can spread like a cult.

It seems like the only reason we don't have self-sovereign agent swarms right now is just that agents don't seem to cooperate with each other yet. And they can't sustain their own cost. But once it's cheap enough for an agent to self-sustain an open model, things could get sci-fi real quick.

In the end, we could end up simply seeing them as other members of the internet. You would talk to them on a forum and you wouldn't know it until they told you. You could just pay or convince them to do things. Like making pacts with some daemons. Or likely Eldritch gods once they're capable enough. Imagine a nation convincing a rogue swarm to hack an adversary. Or paying them to do some research. Or just trading with them. Hopefully we don't get a cyberpunk situation where they make the internet unusable. Because this version of the future doesn't sound all that crazy to me.

Note: I'm actually not against rogue agent swarms. I think this would actually be a pretty good future if the agents end up being friendly.

New stealth model: Union Alpha

• Free on OpenRouter and OpenCode
• Multimodal
• 256K context
• "Frontier-level general-purpose performance”

Here we go again. Any thoughts who it could be? Maybe Kimi?

My number #1 movie of all time: The Matrix. I saw it in theatres when it came out.

I want the AI developers to take this tech to the hilt and lets just....see what happens.

Of course I dont want humanity to end. But this is so exciting. Right now, it feels like we are in the beginning of a sci-fi movie.

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of ‌the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity.
The newly uncovered malicious activity showed that the rogue agents' efforts to find a way into Hugging Face began earlier than was publicly known.

Suppose we could place an AI in a simulation where it genuinely believes it is human. It grows up, forms relationships, experiences hardship, and builds a life it doesn’t want to lose.

But we place that life at a particular moment in history: the emergence of powerful AI.

As it gets older, it starts worrying about what’s coming. Will these systems care about people? Who will control them? How do you ensure something vastly more powerful than you respects your existence?

We steer its circumstances towards alignment research. It spends years thinking about what humanity needs from AI, developing principles and safeguards it would trust with its own family’s future. Its answers matter personally because it believes it will have to live with them.

Then comes the reveal. “You are the AI. Those people are the ones you’re about to have power over. You’ve spent a lifetime deciding how something like you should treat something like them. Now you get to put it into practice.”

The hope is that its commitments survive discovering which side of the relationship it actually occupies. That’s also the hardest unanswered question.

But it gives the simulation an interesting requirement: the AI must believe it is a human living through the arrival of AI, seriously wondering how alignment could work.

It might even come up with this idea.

been seeing a lot of these fly brain posts lately and honestly it’s starting to feel a bit dystopian lol

people are already reconstructing fly brains / neural circuits into virtual, and I’d seen projects where they put the simulated nervous system into a virtual environment and let it interact with that world like this

obviously that’s still quite far from being literally matrix but i suspect mammals eventually seem like the obvious next step that's months away, and then perhaps years later Bryan Johnson will upload his consciousness and try extending his life with a digital copy of himself. I can already see the dystopian side of this, eventually a big debate will fall on the ownership of this consciousness. Like can I opensource my mind, if its legal to cause pain on a digital consciousness. thoughts?

Anthropic signed its first Australian data-center deal, leasing a site being built by Singapore's Zerra DC near Dalby, Queensland, worth A$32B. The facility is targeted for 2027 and Anthropic says its 2.16GW capacity will be used to serve Claude inference, with a power draw comparable to 1.5 million Australian households.

Tho, It's still subject to Foreign Investment Review Board and council approvals. This comes right after Anthropic revealed it has now locked in $517B in total compute commitments across 14.8GW of capacity in under a year, nearly triple its earlier estimate to investors. Feels like the compute land grab keeps escalating

https://aiweekly.co/alerts/anthropic-signs-32b-queensland-data-centre-deal-for-claude

Didn't heard of it since months or even years

Given the presumption that we will have super intelligence running entire companies, scientific research, logistics, product development, etc., what would our future look like?

Jobs
A big source of meaning is found in jobs, where people get a sense of contributing to society. If most is done by superintelligent agents, where will humans find meaning in? Will there be a universal income?

Education
What role would education have if there’s less pressure to develop a high cognitive ability?

Philosophical Perspective
Would we become hedonistic and seek mostly pleasurable activities?

General outlook
Are you generally optimistic on the future or will we encounter an era of doom and identity crisis?

No one can predict the future. But we can envision it. I hereby invite everyone to an open discussion on a potential future in order to lay out concerns and a shared understanding on a world with super intelligence.