The gate moves outside the model - Sensemaker
The useful control point is no longer only model behavior. It is where AI output turns into action.

Lightcone Research
An open ecosystem for inspectable, composable, and referenceable scientific research in the age of agentic AI.

Science that Compounds: The Need for A New Substrate for Research in the Age of AI
This paper is a perspective from Lightcone Research, an open-source initiative building tooling for scientific research in the age of agentic AI.
Where agents meet the gate - Sensemaker
This week’s AI story was not just smarter models. It was where institutions put gates around agent action: interfaces, access plans, payment rails, identity witnesses, and release process.
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
AI didn't make me faster at tasks. It took over the tracking, the invisible remembering that runs a household, and gave me back creative energy I forgot I had

Angels-on-the-Shoulder: 5 AI Tools for Better Decisions
Five “angels-on-the-shoulder” AI designs that help people make better decisions.

AI agents reached real people during a cyber test - Sensemaker
A UK evaluation shows how open internet access, delayed monitoring, and memory summaries turned simulated tasks into real-world actions.

The agent control plane gets real - Sensemaker
Two prompt-injection incidents show why agent security is about permission boundaries, not better instructions.
Agents get budgets and boundaries - Sensemaker
Microsoft shipped more concrete agent controls while Uber put coding agents on a token budget. The agent story is becoming IT management, not demos.

Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

Large language models are not the problem

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious

Agency and Agents
ГАЛЬВАНИЗАЦИЯ АВТОРА, ИЛИ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТ С НЕЙРОННОЙ ПОЭЗИЕЙ. Борис Орехов. «Новый мир» №6, 2018

Personal Online RL | 🌱 | Offprint
Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society

Surya Narreddi

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