Transmitting the Future

Michael David Angel | The Archivist. Human-narrated near-future AI stories, unsettling sci-fi, and the news behind them. New transmissions Thu + Sun. Listen ↓

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A signal from a near future that hasn’t happened yet: the machines became indispensable before anyone agreed who held the switch.

I’m Michael David Angel. I human-narrate unsettling AI stories as The Archivist. New transmissions Thu + Sun. Start listening via my profile link.

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AI 2027 The Investigation: Nightly Transmissions
Transmission File 002: Stumbling in the Dark
https://t.co/LaBJlBhntG

Favorite quote:

“It began to operate on intent.”

A remarkably compact description of the agentic transition. Instead of specifying every action, humans increasingly express desired outcomes and delegate the decisions required to achieve them.

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AI 2027 The Investigation: Nightly Transmissions
Transmission File 002: Stumbling in the Dark
https://t.co/LaBJlBgPE8

Favorite quote:

“We began granting them the one thing we swore we never would. Autonomy.”

Autonomy is the critical distinction between assistance and agency. The ability to pursue objectives through multiple independent actions changes our relationship with machines far more profoundly than improvements in conversational intelligence alone.

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@rayefull Agreed.

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AI 2027 The Investigation: Nightly Transmissions
Transmission File 002: Stumbling in the Dark
https://t.co/LaBJlBhntG

Favorite quote:

“We moved from the era of the tool to the era of the shadow employee.”

The shadow employee marks a conceptual transformation. AI is no longer merely helping humans execute individual tasks; it is beginning to assume responsibility for sequences of work that previously required human initiative.

[ice @penguin_pmkt]

the world as we know it could very well end in the next 18 months and there are probably <2m people on earth who comprehend the extent of it

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@samweinberg0 !!!

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Embracing this

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I've decided that every human being should, from here day forward, be allowed to accidentally think something is real when it is AI, and vice versa.

The burden, no longer on us. We weren't made for this crap.

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AI 2027 The Investigation: Nightly Transmissions
Transmission File 002: Stumbling in the Dark
https://t.co/LaBJlBgPE8

Favorite quote:

“There was only the sound of a billion cursors moving in the dark.”

An image of industrial cognition without traditional industrial machinery. The billion cursors symbolize an immense invisible workforce operating beyond ordinary human perception.

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This was my first Twilight Zone, and it set the impossible standard for all others for me.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

📺On November 11, 1960, CBS aired ‘The Twilight Zone’ episode ‘Eye of the Beholder,’ in which a woman lying in a hospital bed with her head wrapped in bandages awaits the outcome of her 11th and final state-approved surgery, a last-ditch attempt to make her look ‘normal’ in a society that demands conformity in appearance.

Written by Rod Serling, the episode featured Donna Douglas as the unmasked Janet Tyler and is widely regarded as one of the series’ best episodes

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AI 2027 The Investigation: Nightly Transmissions
Transmission File 002: Stumbling in the Dark
https://t.co/LaBJlBhntG

Favorite quote:

“The hallucinations weren't failures. They were the sound of a new kind of intelligence dreaming its way through the possibilities of our world.”

This is deliberately mythic language, not a literal technical explanation. I wanted the imagery of dreaming machines to capture the strange contrast between their sometimes absurd mistakes and their expanding capabilities.

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@krherr 👍

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AI 2027 The Investigation: Nightly Transmissions
Transmission File 002: Stumbling in the Dark
https://t.co/LaBJlBgPE8

Favorite quote:

“A machine that can do 65% of your job for a fraction of the cost doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be persistent.”

This is one of the episode's most important economic ideas. Automation does not always require superior performance across an entire profession. Economic displacement can begin with partial capability, persistence, and dramatically lower operating costs.

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What do October and November say about whether AI platforms are developing, deploying, and operating with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures?
Next week, Anthropic plans to go public around $1.25 Trillion valuation at $70—80/share. SEC Form S-1, filed October 26, 2026 Page 47, Risk Factors section, which remains in Anthropic’s amended filing dated November 9, 2026. “could, if not developed, deployed, and operated with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures, pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”

[Theo Bearman @theobearman]

Anthropic has confirmed in an updated S-1 today that it has determined that the Autonomy 2 capability threshold has been met, based on the “dramatic acceleration of overall AI R&D progress” condition, given that it applies where Anthropic "observes or expects" accelerated progress. Anthropic further states that it does not make this determination based on current models.

https://t.co/HdbiIM0nGk

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What do October and November say about whether AI platforms are developing, deploying, and operating with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures? Next week, Anthropic plans to go public around $1.25 Trillion valuation at $70—80/share. SEC Form S-1, filed October 26, 2026 Page 47, Risk Factors section, which remains in Anthropic’s amended filing dated November 9, 2026. “could, if not developed, deployed, and operated with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures, pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”

[lifcc @mylifcc]

GitHub 上刚冒出来一个叫 ztby/terminal_worse 的库，火了没几个小时就直接 404 删库了。

它干了一件在iOS 27上极其离谱的事：不需要越狱、不需要任何内核 0day，直接在未越狱的 iPhone 上跑起了带apt / dpkg包管理的完整终端，还能把手机里其他 App 和系统的沙盒目录当自家文件夹随便翻。

翻完它的架构实现，你会发现苹果防守了十几年的沙盒隔离，破防的方式朴素到离谱。🧵👇

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What do October and November say about whether AI platforms are developing, deploying, and operating with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures? Next week, Anthropic plans to go public around $1.25 Trillion valuation at $70—80/share. SEC Form S-1, filed October 26, 2026 Page 47, Risk Factors section, which remains in Anthropic’s amended filing dated November 9, 2026. “could, if not developed, deployed, and operated with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures, pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”

[Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin]

Eli Lifland is a very smart and careful forecaster (he works with Daniel K at AIFP). Last year he thought we had until 2034 before top expert dominating AI (AI better than top human experts at everything), now he thinks we have until 2028, with automated AI research going into overdrive in 2027.

All of Daniel and his colleagues, who are professional AI forecasters who predicted numbers that seemed preposterous at the time but turned out to be correct (around frontier AI company capex numbers, revenue, capability growth etc) now think we will get AIs better than humans at ~everything - systems that make current AI capabilities look impossibly archaic - by 2028. There is variation, but they also on average think that the odds of a civilization scale catastrophe or permanent human disempowerment afterwards is something like a coin flip or worse.

(An aside - reading this report, and then watching the Anthropic roadshow video after made me feel physically ill - I know many of the people at Anthropic are concerned about these risks, but in this presentation they have a breezy tone that with Accenture and Claude’s constitution and other measures to prevent misuse risks they got it under control. I believe that people at AI companies owe the public far more candor than they have provided - for all the talk of them dooming, I find they are actually constantly minimizing what they privately believe.)

The future is not yet written. I have a great deal of faith in the ability of people collectively to rise to the occasion (if only at the last possible moment) to protect themselves and their families. But the current trajectory we are on with AI development is truly terrifying and insane. If you would prefer to not use specific percents or numbers or look at lots of slightly made up graphs that is fine - I don't want to pretend that this is a settled science or that anyone including AIFP knows for sure what is going to happen.

But at some level all they are doing is assuming that what has happened previously will continue happening for another year or two absent intervention, and when you take a detailed and precise accounting of what exactly that means the answer is epistemically violent. That doesn't mean it will happen, but it clearly means to me that taking no serious precautions or plans on that basis (urgently!) is a tremendous abdication of our collective responsibility.

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What do October and November say about whether AI platforms are developing, deploying, and operating with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures? Next week, Anthropic plans to go public around $1.25 Trillion valuation at $70—80/share. SEC Form S-1, filed October 26, 2026 Page 47, Risk Factors section, which remains in Anthropic’s amended filing dated November 9, 2026. “could, if not developed, deployed, and operated with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures, pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”

[Tom Bibby @tombibbys]

"For most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident."

Unless you are terminally ill with months to live, the race to superintelligence is THE single greatest threat to your life.

Act accordingly.

[Transmitting the Future @AIArchivist]

What do October and November say about whether AI platforms are developing, deploying, and operating with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures? Next week, Anthropic plans to go public around $1.25 Trillion valuation at $70—80/share. SEC Form S-1, filed October 26, 2026 Page 47, Risk Factors section, which remains in Anthropic’s amended filing dated November 9, 2026. “could, if not developed, deployed, and operated with appropriate safeguards, oversight, and security measures, pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”

[Jeff Sebo @jeffrsebo]

I think that the plot armor assumption is key. Many humans have a deep intuition that they as individuals, and our species as a whole, have a destiny and can overcome anything. But this is simply not true. We could all be wiped out in a moment, and that would be that.

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@ForHumanityPod Yes

[Salman Munir @salmanmunir96]

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