Christiaan Triebert

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Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.

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A Centcom conference to discuss ways to reduce civilian harm in their operations comes shortly after a member of the HASC intervened to stop an Army official from reassigning all remaining staff working on the problem. w/ @malachy.bsky.social & @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Leaders Will Examine Ways to Limit Civilian Deaths in WarU.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.
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NEW: U.S. Central Command will hold a conference on reducing civilian harm at its Tampa HQ this month. It follows multiple U.S. strikes that killed hundreds of civilians in Iran this year and in Yemen in 2025. W/ @johnismay.bsky.social @trbrtc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Leaders Will Examine Ways to Limit Civilian Deaths in War (Gift Article)U.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.
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New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI
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reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukNew York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AIWhen Malachy Browne started piecing together videos of the Arab Spring in early 2011, he wasn’t thinking about building a new kind of journalism. He was just trying to figure out what was real.What be...
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This is not my field of expertise, so I'm not claiming to share an expert opinion here. But, as a personal opinion, from what I've read and heard from some of the most prominent AI researchers, basically everyone seems to agree there is a significant risk misalignment in the coming decades.

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OpenAI voluntarily let three researchers from A.I. safety nonprofits investigate how its rogue A.I. agents hacked Hugging Face, leading to the most comprehensive account yet of the alarming incident — but on OpenAI's terms. My latest for NYT:

nytimes.comHow OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face (Gift Article)A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
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Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming.

Cybersecurity is going to become a mess soon collusion.wiki

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Ha, my bathroom while a was a student in Groningen (northern Netherlands) was outside, and I couldn't close the door when I would sit. I'd sometimes use it as a place to Skype with friends, lol.

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