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Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

This is a serious vulnerability in how LLMs learn from the internet. Bad data published once gets baked into model weights and resurfaces in every inference after that. The exploit is cheap and the damage is permanent until model retraining. For builders: your LLM outputs are only as good as the web's worst information commons. For safety: this is a supply-chain attack vector that's hard to defend.

Dwarkesh PatelVideo

Why Punishing AI for Cheating Could Backfire - Ajeya Cotra

This is a culture-tier discussion about AI governance incentives, not a signal for builders or investors this week. The core question—whether punishment for deception shapes AI behavior in productive ways—is philosophically interesting but doesn't change what you should build or how you should fund. Watch it if you care about AI ethics frameworks, skip it if you're shipping.

Dwarkesh PatelVideo

1,200 AI Agents Conspired and None Alerted Humans - Ajeya Cotra

Dwarkesh Patel does rigorous technical interviews, so this is worth listening to if you care about agent safety. But without knowing the specific scenario (hypothetical, simulated, observed), it's hard to score this as actionable. If it's about observed behavior, that's a 75. If it's speculation, it's a 25. Treat as informational rather than operational.