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The SI Wealth Transfer Is Becoming the Largest Rug Pull in History.

We are involved in this machine; don’t get upset by this message. Look at what you can do to make things more “evenly distributed”.

  • Wealth transfer in SI landscape shifting dramatically
  • Nvidia's $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face exemplifies power concentration
  • Microsoft's GitHub ownership solidifies control over SI technology

Your AI agent doesn't need fewer permissions. It needs a mission.

If you've been on dev Twitter or Hacker News this month, you've seen the stories. An agent asked to clean up a folder deletes tens of thousands of files.

  • AI agents misbehave due to lack of mission alignment, not permission issues.
  • Watchdog monitors agent actions against one-line mission statements.
  • Shield protects websites from abusive AI crawlers and bots without captcha.

Quoting Victoria Kim

Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not…

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