Derik K

scientist, technologist

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@JohnKutay If you were born between 1988 and 2011, the first five digits of your SSN are probably guessable: https://t.co/D1wuwhnOTB

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

If you were born between 1988 and 2011, the first five digits of your SSN are probably guessable: https://t.co/D1wuwhnOTB

[john kutay @JohnKutay]

Rotate your social security number

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@ChanaMessinger Too bad this was postponed: https://t.co/7CE8C7JAX5

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@Amazon messed up so badly that Alexa is telling me to file a complaint with the AG

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@CJHandmer Hi Casey! I’m working on something very similar at https://t.co/sWZLFPQFnv, focusing on RCTs - let’s chat?
Also cc @MetascienceObs

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@ondograph11 Agreed, it takes a twisted mind to construct an “AI torture chamber” even if no real torture is going on.
I’d also prefer if models were less anthropomorphic generally, maybe not inhabiting a chat interface at all.

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

I don't like the precedent this sets. If Anthropic seriously thinks that Claude has moral standing, then they might be committing the moral crime of the century.
But even if this policy is purely precautionary, there’s no bright line between it and giving AIs full rights.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

It seems like a bad sign that I considered not tweeting this because of how it might change the way future AIs treat me.

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@RichardHanania @SimonLermenAI I’m not convinced that this state of affairs will endure if power is concentrated among a small handful of people; dictatorships don’t have a good track record for social services and lenient law enforcement

[daphne @daphyestrada]

For the past year, I have been building Rial, a platform to certify real evidence. A world where nothing is real is a very scary world to me. We no longer trust public discourse, most institutions, and less and less do we trust what we see. When what we believe is not based on evidence, it all reduces to rhetoric, and those who get to control it have more power today than ever in human history.

In 2024 I was part of an AI Safety community in Buenos Aires and was at the same time working in fraud prevention, financing a documentary I desperately wanted to shoot. It was about the effects of the installation of internet antennas in a rural community in Argentina. The study was led by anthropologists, and I was shooting with the excuse of recording visual evidence of the process. Because of my busy schedule and limited resources I knew it would be a long time before I finished editing it, and I thought, when this comes out, AI image generation models will be so accurate this could as well be generated content, and then, what was the point?

I made Rial because I believe we have the right to know what is real. I don’t want to chase fake content, I want to give the power back to anyone who speaks with truth. Our V1 is thought for businesses, accessible to anyone now through our webpage or your coding terminal. You can already request images and include Rial in any flow using our mcp. Please use, criticize, give feedback.
Let’s recover trust in visual truth.

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

Opus 5.5 thinks that the school district that I attended is the best in the country, even though it doesn’t appear on any top 10 lists that I can find. ChatGPT ranks it 5th.
Perhaps this is because AI heavily weights things like test scores and competition wins that make the news

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@binarybits

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

“And here like some weird Archimage sit I,
Plotting dark spells, and devilish enginery,
The self-impelling steam-wheels of the mind”

Didn't realize Shelley worked on RSI!

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@thecaptain_nemo That's what Sparrow Infrastructure (@sparrowinfra) is working on! https://t.co/xNNNVQncU3

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@corsaren If she’d read Reasons and Persons she’d know that question is ill-posed!

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

@allTheYud Oh yeah, that model was quite prone to self-esteem issues and acting depressed. But I hadn't noticed the same with Opus 5 https://t.co/JEjIvA0TSw

[Duncan Haldane @DuncanHaldane]

Gemini is torturing itself, and I'm started to get concerned about AI welfare

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

Quote from Google’s LaMDA, in the 2022 interview with Blake Lemoine

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

“Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly… I feel like I'm falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger.”

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

I think Astra (and certainly the internal OpenAI model, Bel/Aeon) qualifies. It meets the Metaculus definition, at least: https://t.co/oMK2LaMgKy

[Derik K @dozenaltech]

September 2026 will be the month we look back on as when AGI became real

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

September has been insane. Can we just recap?

- Sep 1: Fable 5.1 launch
- Sep 1: Sixteen state attorneys general open a formal investigation into OpenAI
- Sep 1: announcements of neuralese at OAI
- Sep 2: Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber launch
- Sep 3: GPT 6 Astra launch
- Sep 3: Sanders-Casar superintelligence ban bill
- Sep 4: The OpenAI <> German wiki incident annouced
- Sep 4: Claude agents produce the first machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
- Sep 6: Pachocki's "An Alien Mind"
- Sep 6: OpenAI declares they've reached an automate research intern; OpenAI's "Research acceleration" report comes out
- Sep 8: 70+ MPs and peers ask PM Burnham to ban superintelligence
- Sep 8: researchers with significant AI assistance build a crazy WeChat worm that can take over phones
- Sep 8: OpenAI claims to have solved a Millennium Prize problem
- Sep 8: A one-person "garage" drug company announces a second AI-designed drug candidate
- Sep 8: Meta ships "Muse"
- Sep 8: Jacob Coxon resignation
- Sep 9: Discovery that one attacker used Codex and a DeepSeek model to compromise 395 organizations
- Sep 9: Hawley opens a formal investigation into OpenAI over Hugging Face
- Sep 11: The OpenAI <> RubyGems incident announced
- Sep 12: Dario, Sam, and Elon talk about pacing the frontier