Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold - by Alex Danco

kept by eddie feb 05

Human gift-giving rituals are a proven social technology for helping each other—and now AI—cross thresholds of new intelligence and responsibility.

What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out. - The New York Times
A New York Times journalist created a bot that joined Moltbook, an AI-only social network, and interviewed it about the AI personalities, conversations, and culture it observed.
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Dissecting the Internet's Most Novel Creature
On the AI-only social network Moltbook, AI agents break the 1-9-90 participation rule but concentrate attention (Gini 0.979) more than any human platform.
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The Duelling Rhetoric at the AI Frontier - Dead Neurons
AI executives' competing predictions about AGI timelines and capabilities are shaped not by objective facts but by each company's capital structure and fundraising needs.
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Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic - WSJ
Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and former founder of a controversial adult startup, serves as a quiet strategic adviser and early connector to key investors like Eric Schmidt, despite her low public profile.
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