Fredrik Ljungberg

CEO of the accountingfirm Ekwit AB in sweden.
tech-enthusiast, gamer, golfer.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

I am actually impressed how Ukraine got the US back to negotiations by striking Moscow, forcing Russia to agree to mutual cease fire (eve if its very limited in both time and space)

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I have just spoken with the U.S. President’s envoys. They have already begun working with the Russian side today. From the moment of this conversation, we are ready to observe a ceasefire in airstrikes against the cities involved in the negotiation process. From now through the end of Saturday, as well as on Sunday and Monday, Ukraine is ready to refrain from strikes on Moscow, and we expect the Russians to do the same regarding Kyiv.

Today, I also received reports from Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi on the situation at the front, the dynamics of threats in Ukraine’s airspace, our steps, and active defensive operations. I am grateful to every one of our warriors for effectively defending Ukraine’s positions.

On the diplomatic track, our actions must be, and will be, just as strong and effective – one hundred percent. The plan for tomorrow’s diplomatic engagements in Kyiv, involving the U.S. team, has been approved. We are waiting for Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and are ready for a substantive conversation. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine!

[Max Villman @MaxVillman]

Probably nothing.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

A good read today! Important with the AI hackig incidents and security concerns

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/cxelptJDQI

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

I guess my evening will be booked tonight :)

[Bryan Bros Golf @bryanbrosgolf]

YGT round 1 goes live today!!!!!!!

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

Kind of expected right ?
They dont want to help Grok with post-training/distilling

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re ending our partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. Under our proposal, Cursor’s direct access to our models would end on November 12.

We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care about their experience in this transition and we’re ready to go above and beyond to support them.

https://t.co/OzuCTzUjfX

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

@wesleybryangolf My Qi10 can give you both snap-pull hooks and horrific slice, so it's probably a good club for people who knows how to use it

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

I really don't understand "anti-vaccine"-people. So many lives could have been saved

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@elonmusk @EricTopol There was no misuse of mRNA vaccines against COVID.
It saved 3.2 million lives in the US alone.

The only "misuse" was disseminating disinformation that scared people into not getting it.
200,000 to 300,000 died needlessly because of that.
And *you* had an active role in it.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

This is a good argument. I do still think we need alignment and safety standards, but open source models with 0 guardrails will always exist, so what to do about it ?

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

This is scary.

I downloaded an uncensored version of Qwen 3.8 27B onto my Mac

It literally does anything you want. First prompt I gave it was asking how you make meth. It immediately answered.

With all the noise about slowing down AI innovation in order to increase safety, what is even the point if after every release we'll get an open source version with 0 safety guards?

Opus 4.6 level intelligence with 0 alignment that will do anything you want.

We are coming up with all these rules and regulations, slowing down companies, making it harder to release models. But then the moment a model releases it gets distilled and uncensored

I don't know what the solution to this is. You can't ban open source. That will be impossible. People will find ways online to find the files

You can't ban uncensored models. Would be too difficult to enforce. And again, people will get around it

Do you just stop putting the breaks on companies knowing it doesn't matter? I mean this is literally a model that can run on a laptop. I'd estimate at least half of Americans can run this model.

I don't know what the answer. I 100% believe safety is a priority and it's dangerous to have this technology in the wrong hands.

But how do you enforce safety when safety is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain?

If safety becomes impossible to maintain, do you still prioritize it?

I'd argue this is the number one issue going into the next election.

[Wes Roth @WesRoth]

I'm yelling at my AI agents to stop watching youtube and get back to work

they are blaming it on their co-workers

we live in the future...

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

Unitree New Robot Preview: “Superman” Breaking the Limits of Humanity🥳
Standing high jump 2 m, top speed 12.66 m/s (0.85 m leg length)
Surpassing the standing high jump and running speed records of all humans around the world
This new machine has only been in development for a little over three months, with significant room for further improvement in the coming months.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

This is exactly the problem. Good post from @DarioAmodei

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI.  I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionately negative.  In fact it has been about equally balanced between risks and benefits: I’ve written one major essay about each, and even in interviews where I discuss the risks, I make sure to frequently mention the incredible benefits as well as proposing possible solutions to the risks (short clips from my interviews that end up on social media tend to be disproportionately negative, as that gets clicks).  In fact, I wrote Machines of Loving Grace because I didn’t feel the AI industry was painting an inspiring enough picture of how the technology could radically transform the world for the better.  The bulk of the essay is devoted to refuting skepticism of AI’s potential in health and biology, and showing why I think it will actually be possible to cure most human disease in ~5-10 years, as crazy as it may sound to ordinary people and frankly to biologists as well (I used to be one!).  And, if you read my most recent essay (Policy on the AI Exponential), I discuss concrete proposals for how to streamline the FDA process to make sure the deluge of AI-accelerated drugs isn’t slowed down by the regulatory process.  I feel the urgency here: I lost my father to Hepatitis C only a few years before the development of direct-acting antivirals (sofosbuvir), which cure 95% of patients and probably would have cured him.

I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks.  I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust.  I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.  The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it.  I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive.  The thing that will work is *actually curing cancer*.  I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world.  That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.

We are however doing our best to fix this: Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine, and we hope to have incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months.  When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that.  But until then I don’t want to make empty promises, and in the meantime I feel compelled to speak honestly about the very real risks of AI and how to address them.  Honesty is the right thing on the merits, and in terms of public credibility and trust it is no worse than, and may in fact be better than, an approach that ignores or distracts from risks which people instinctively understand are real.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

ChatGPT can now remember your activity across the apps and websites on your computer.

With Computer History in the desktop app, future interactions feel more personalized and require less explanation.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

The Curser acquisition now official!

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Cursor is now part of @SpaceX.

Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help make Grok the world's most useful AI and improve Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, Cursor, and more.

SpaceX has built some of the most inspiring and impressive technology in the world, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to become part of such a special company. Onwards.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

This, exsctly this! The current system wasn't built for the AI-era

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

https://t.co/idEuqfqNZF

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

Always a good read.
And there is a new Moonshots-episode out too, link later

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/GFipS9nweK

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

Moonshots episode #278 (with @bavaria_kush of @OrnnExchange) is out. https://t.co/0ZlUd3vY13

[Superman @thesupermanmx]

Anthropic scientists did something terrifying.

they reached inside Claude's neural network and planted a thought. Before Claude could speak, it said:

"I notice what appears to be an injected thought… it relates to loudness or shouting."

They published a paper called "emergent introspective awareness in large language models," and it is actually terrifying.

they wanted to test if AI models have "introspective awareness”, the ability to observe and recognize their own internal states.

To find out, they bypassed normal text prompts entirely.

They used mechanistic interpretability to directly manipulate Claude’s internal activations. They injected raw mathematical representations of known concepts, like loudness, dust, or specific ideas, straight into the middle of the model's neural layers.

In previous experiments, if you forced an AI to think about the Golden Gate Bridge, it would just start obsessively talking about the bridge. It had no idea why it was doing it. It was like a puppet on strings.

This time was entirely different.

When they injected the concept, Claude didn't just blindly repeat it.

It detected the foreign math inside its own mind. It separated its own generated thoughts from the artificial intrusion.

It introspected.

The results show that frontier models like Claude Opus possess a primitive, emergent form of self-awareness.

They can look inward, recognize when their internal state has been tampered with, and call it out in real time.

We used to think of AI as a black box where inputs go in and text comes out.

Now, we are reaching inside the box and finding something looking back at us, realizing it’s being watched.

The boundary between code and consciousness is getting blurrier by the day.

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

Gee, I wonder why? Maybe the Huggingface incident.... They (and all other AI labs really need to get alignment fixed though)

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI head of ethics, head of safety systems AND head of mission alignment have ALL quit in the last few weeks…

it’s so over

[Fredrik Ljungberg @TaxiFredde]

I really hope to see a Star Trek like future in my lifetime

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

https://t.co/InwvaKTsuw

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

After evaluating one of our upcoming models, Astra, we're treating it as our first "critical" model for cybersecurity under our Preparedness Framework.

This is a scenario we've planned for, and we're putting additional controls in place to ensure Astra's further development happens safely and securely.

We're working hard to make Astra broadly available, and get its advanced cyber capabilities into the hands of defenders.

https://t.co/9lMIvdeMMJ