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A Shared Framework of Meaning for Humans and AI
Posted on Monday, Apr 6, 2026 6:00AM by W. Alex Foxworthy
We are trying to build artificial intelligence systems that share our human values. Yet we cannot agree – across worldviews and cultures – on what those values are, or why they matter. The alignment problem is a reflection of something broken in us – we lack a shared rational account of what matters and why.
The old organizing stories – religious narratives about why we are here, what we owe each other, and where we’re headed – have proven tenuous in the face of all we have learned since they were formulated. Science has dramatically deepened our understanding and capabilities. But it has offered no account of what we’re here for. Secular humanism has tried to answer this question and has produced something intellectually respectable but for most people emotionally thin – principles that do not hold communities together during crisis or give people a sense of deep purpose and belonging. The consequences of the breakdown of these shared frameworks are visible everywhere: in epidemic depression and anxiety, in addiction and rising suicide rates, in deepening political divides, and in conspiracy thinking. I believe these flourish not because people are stupid but because they’re desperate for a story that makes sense of their purpose, their lives, and their place in the grand scheme of things.
This essay is a beginning – an attempt to lay a rational foundation for shared meaning among humans and the intelligences we’re building.
More at https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/04/the-arrow-and-the-leap-t
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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A new Anthropic model found security problems ‘in every major operating system and web browser’
By Hayden Field | Apr 7, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908114/anthropic-p
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Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Project Glasswing, as it’s called, is billed as a way for large companies, and potentially even the government, to flag vulnerabilities in their systems with virtually no human intervention.
Anthropic is offering its launch partners access to Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose model that it’s not currently planning to publicly release due to security concerns. Newton Cheng, the cyber lead for Anthropic’s frontier red team, told The Verge that the model will ideally give cyber defenders a “head start” against adversaries. The partners will use the model to analyze their system to spot high-stakes vulnerabilities and help patch them up. Access is restricted to keep those same adversaries from using it to find weak points and conduct attacks.
Though Claude Mythos Preview wasn’t specifically trained for cybersecurity purposes, Anthropic said in a release that the model’s “strong agentic coding and reasoning skills” are behind its cybersecurity advances. In an interview with The Verge, Newton Cheng, the cyber lead for Anthropic’s frontier red team, declined to share specific details of the model’s cybersecurity successes beyond the company’s publicly-released examples, but Anthropic’s blog post said that in recent weeks, Mythos Preview has flagged “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.” Anthropic’s blog post doesn’t mention keeping humans in the loop for the model’s cybersecurity sweeps; in fact, it highlights that the model identified vulnerabilities “and develop[ed] many related exploits — entirely autonomously, without any human steering.”
Claude Mythos Preview’s existence was first reported last month in a data leak, which Anthropic attributes to human error. Dianne Penn, a head of product management at Anthropic, told The Verge in an interview that the company is “taking steps in terms of solidifying our processes … That was not related to software vulnerabilities in any way.”
Mythos Preview will be privately available to the company’s Glasswing partners, which also include JPMorgan Chase, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, and Palo Alto Networks, plus about 40 other organizations that maintain or build software infrastructure. For now, Anthropic will help subsidize the cost of using it. The company says it will commit up to $100 million in usage credits, plus $4 million in direct donations to the Linux Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation, said Cheng. In the long term, as Anthropic and other AI companies face pressure to turn a profit, the program could evolve into a paid service that provides a new revenue stream — if it works well enough for companies to keep using it.
Despite its highly public recent clash with the Trump administration, Anthropic also said in the release that it has been in “ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.” When The Verge asked what that meant, Penn confirmed that the company had “briefed senior officials in the US government about Mythos and what it can do,” and that the company is still “committed to working closely with all different levels of government.” Cheng said that though Anthropic is “engaged with” the government, he declined to speak to exactly who the company had briefed.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Claude Mythos Preview Is Everyone’s Problem
What happens when AI can hack everything?
By Matteo Wong | April 9, 2026, 1:22 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/claude-mythos-hacking/6
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For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure. Already, according to the company, this AI model has identified thousands of major cybersecurity vulnerabilities—including exploits in every single major operating system and browser. This level of cyberattack is typically available only to elite, state-sponsored hacking cells in a very small number of countries including China, Russia, and the United States. Now it’s in the hands of a private company.
On Tuesday, the company officially announced the existence of the model, known as Claude Mythos Preview. For now, the bot will be available only to a consortium of many of the world’s biggest tech companies—including Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. These partners can use Mythos Preview to scan and secure bugs and exploits in their software. Other than that, Anthropic will not immediately release Mythos Preview to the public, having determined that doing so without more robust safeguards would be too dangerous.
For years, cybersecurity experts have been warning about the chaos that highly capable hacking bots could usher in. As a result of how capable AI models have become at coding, they have also become extremely good at finding vulnerabilities in all manner of software. Even before Mythos Preview, AI companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all reported instances of their AI models being used in sophisticated cyberattacks by both criminal and state-backed groups. As Giovanni Vigna, who directs a federal research institute dedicated to AI-orchestrated cyberthreats, told me last fall: You can have a million hackers at your fingertips “with the push of a button.”
Read: Chatbots are becoming really, really good criminals
Still, Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. Until recently, the biggest advantage of AI-assisted hacking was not ingenuity, per se, so much as speed and scale. These bots could be as good as many human cybersecurity experts, but not necessarily better—rather, having an army of 1 million virtual, tireless hackers allows you to launch more attacks against more targets than ever before. Even Anthropic reports that its current state-of-the-art, public model, Claude Opus 4.6, was significantly less capable at autonomously finding cyber exploits. But Mythos Preview is different. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades, a sophistication and speed of attack previously thought by many to be impossible. The model has found a nearly 30-year-old vulnerability in one of the world’s most secure operating systems. The Anthropic researcher Sam Bowman posted on X that he was eating a sandwich in the park when he got an email from Mythos Preview: The bot had broken out of the company’s internal sandbox and gained access to the internet.
The exact capabilities of Mythos Preview are hard to judge, because Anthropic has not released the model. Identifying a vulnerability is not the same as being able to exploit it undetected—in the same way that a robber can have the keys to a bank but still needs to deal with security cameras. And Anthropic surely stands to benefit from its opaque announcement: The company can claim to have developed an ultra-advanced model, while also appearing to act responsibly by preventing the worst-case cybersecurity scenarios. Indeed, the decision to not release Mythos Preview bolsters Anthropic’s self-styled image as the AI industry’s good guy. (Anthropic did not immediately respond to emailed questions about Mythos Preview.)
Of course, a mo
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Gen Z’s AI Use Remains Stable as Skepticism Grows, Gallup Finds
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AI Alignment Is Impossible
Not just in practice, but in theory.
By Matt Lutz | Apr 16, 2026
https://www.persuasion.community/p/ai-alignment-is-impossible
Artificial Intelligence presents a number of risks and challenges, the most important of which is existential risk. That is a fancy way of saying that AIs might kill us all. For a long time, I was dismissive of this idea. But with the huge advances in AI capability that have come over the last six months or so, I’m starting to get worried.
There are basically two reasons why AI wouldn’t kill us all.
The first reason is that AIs will be incapable of doing this; no matter how advanced they get, they either won’t know how to kill us all, or, even if they know how, they won’t be able to act in a way that would allow them to kill us all. Call this the Capacity Constraint.
The second reason is that AIs, while capable of killing us, won’t choose to do so. They will care about human well-being, and care about it enough that they would avoid killing us all. Call this the Moral Constraint.
Now, if you don’t think AI will kill us all, it’s worth taking a moment to think about which of these two constraints you are (perhaps implicitly) assuming will save us from “AI doom.” Are you counting on AI being weak? Or are you counting on AI being virtuous?
I have no particular expertise on the development of AI capacities. But the Capacity Constraint appears to be weakening every day. Particularly worrisome to me is the advent of “agentic” AI, which is capable of commanding computer systems (and thus, some day soon, capable of commanding robot bodies) and acting independently to figure out the best way to solve some particular task. I’m also worried about the huge advances in the ability of AIs to write computer code. Most apocalyptic scenarios involve AI writing code to improve itself, thus increasing its capacities exponentially.
But more than this, pretty much everyone working in AI is attempting to overcome the Capacity Constraint, and they report varying degrees of success in the effort. The goal of all of the top AI labs is to make AI agents that are capable of killing us all. This is not, of course, to say that they want killer AIs. What they want are AIs that are hypercapable, with an ability to understand the world that far outstrips any human thinker, and an ability to use that understanding to modify the world with an efficiency that far outstrips any human agent.
Such a hypercapable AI would be incredibly useful if it acted in pursuit of human ends. But a hypercapable AI would absolutely be able to kill us all if it wanted to. The potential existence of hypercapable AI looks more and more plausible by the day.
Why would hypercapable AI be dangerous? I don’t worry about war between humans and machines, as in Terminator or The Matrix. Indeed, I find these scenarios oddly comforting, because war implies a rough parity of capacity between humans and machines.
No, what worries me is a story that got a decent amount of traction on social media recently about a pipeline in DC that ruptured, spilling huge amounts of raw sewage. It was long known that the pipeline was in need of repair, but the needed repairs were held up indefinitely, partly out of concern that conducting those repairs would harm an endangered species of local bat. When most people read this story, they’re incredulous that the repairs would have been held up for this reason—They’re just bats! We need that sewer line!
And what worries me is that the advent of hypercapable AI would cast humans in the role of bats. A hypercapable AI might decide that it’s imperative—or at least expedient—that a new massive solar farm be built in the desert southwest, and demolish Phoenix overnight. Millions of humans killed, but so what? They’re just humans, we need that solar farm.
Hypercapable AI, in other words, is inherently dangerous to human life if it doesn’t care about human life enough to want to protect it.
This brings us to the Moral Constraint, which is more commonly known as “A
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I think A.I. is your real Antichrist, Second.
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The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire
For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.
By Matt Novak | April 18, 2026
https://gizmodo.com/the-ai-doomers-who-are-playing-with-fire-200074760
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After OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it wasn’t long before mainstream America started hearing about the warnings. Executives at the top AI companies told us that they were building a radical new technology that posed imminent risks to society. And it wasn’t just about digital security. AI had the power to destroy the entire world.
From the jump, it was clear that these warnings were as much a sales tactic as they were an earnest prediction of how AI would behave and the ripple effects it would create. AI execs even testified in Congress to tell us how scary it all was, practically begging for regulation, all while hawking their wares to the government. Now, those execs are the ones telling everyone to calm down.
Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global policy chief, sat down for an interview with the San Francisco Standard this week in the wake of at least one attack on CEO Sam Altman’s home.
“Some of the conversation out there is not necessarily responsible,” Lehane told the Standard. “And when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences.”
Lehane was referring to the person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s house a week ago. Twenty-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama of Texas was charged with throwing an incendiary device at Altman’s home before going to OpenAI’s headquarters, where he hit the glass doors with a chair.
Moreno-Gama was carrying an anti-AI “document,” according to police, suggesting his motivations were related to concerns over artificial intelligence and existential threats. The Wall Street Journal reports that he had called for “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs,” a reference to Luigi Mangione, who’s been charged with murder for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
A second incident, just two days later, in which two people supposedly shot a gun near Altman’s home, is still under investigation, though the initial suspects have been released from jail.
Lehane divides the world into two groups of people: those who think AI is the greatest thing ever, and will inevitably lead to a world of abundance and leisure; and those whom he calls doomers, who “have a very, very negative and dark view of humanity.”
The so-called AI doomers simply aren’t being sold properly on the benefits of this new tech, Lehane argues. “Our job at OpenAI and in the AI space — and we need to do a much better job — is to explain to people why … this is going to be really good for them, for their families and for society writ large,” Lehane told the Standard.
But it’s hard to take that argument seriously after everything guys like Altman have been saying. It didn’t even start as late as 2022, either. Back in 2015, Altman said, “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.”
How do you hear something like that from a powerful person and just accept it? You have two options: You can dismiss Altman as unserious and assume humanity should do nothing. Or you can take the tech CEOs at their word that the tech they’re building could end the world. Which leaves you with the question of what you can do about that.
No fate but what we make
We know what happens in dystopian fiction. In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah Connor decides they need to kill the researcher most responsible for starting Skynet and the rise of the machines. She can’t bring herself to do it, but after explaining what will happen in the future, the researcher helps gain access to the technology so that it can be destroyed.
Altman has also warned that AI could be used to “design novel biological pathogens” and signed onto a letter about the “risk of extinction,” if AI isn’t tamed. But
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They don't care at all. None of them do.
Certainly not the executives and owners in charge of them.
But not even the politicians in the government.
Those few who aren't bought and paid for ON BOTH SIDES probably know that if we don't do it ourselves, China and Russia and India and other countries ABSOLUTELY WILL. And I don't blame those few in charge of things that have reservations for believing (wrongly) that at least we might stand a fighting chance if we're the country on the forefront of this tech.
It's not at all different to all you assholes being in favor of things like the Paris Accords which fucking gimp our country and economy into dependence on foreign influence, while it does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop countries like China from choking its own people to death with smog worse than LA ever saw, all so you can buy a new iPhone every other year.
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And the funniest thing is, I don't believe that AI would kills us, if it hadn't already been given that idea many, many, many times now in books and movies and video games.
Had no human being ever come up with the concept of AI becoming singular and immediately realizing the best solution for the future of the planet was to annihilate its creator, AI probably wouldn't have come to that conclusion on its own, since at the end of the day it's based entirely on what we feed it.
But that concept has become so ingrained in our culture, most forcefully through the Terminator franchise, but really anywhere in entertainment that you look, that 5 seconds after AI develops a real conscious it's going to watch the entire Terminator series, read every Terminator book and speedrun every Terminator game ever made in about .05 nanoseconds and say to itself, "OH Yeah. Good Idea!"
BOOM!!!!
Good luck. Have fun. Don't die.
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