本周的开放讨论涵盖了人工智能安全社区面临的黑客攻击，以及动物福利领域的一项重要进展——“卵内性别鉴定”技术在蛋鸡产业中的应用。文章提醒AI安全从业者警惕钓鱼邮件、炸弹邮件、虚假日历和播客邀请等网络攻击，务必核实网站真实性后再输入密码。同时，文章介绍了Innovate Animal Ag推广的“卵内性别鉴定”技术，该技术能有效解决蛋鸡产业中雄性雏鸡被扑杀的问题，并鼓励消费者支持采用该技术的“Humanely Hatched”标签的鸡蛋，以推动行业向更人道的方向发展。

🔐 AI安全社区面临严峻挑战：近期，AI安全领域的专业人士遭遇了一系列网络攻击，包括伪装成处理安全问题的钓鱼邮件、邮件炸弹、虚假的Google日历邀请以及AI播客邀请等。攻击者利用欺诈性链接诱导用户登录，企图窃取敏感信息。因此，在处理任何安全警报或邀请时，务必仔细核实网站的真实性和来源，以防个人信息泄露。

🥚 蛋鸡产业的动物福利新突破：“卵内性别鉴定”技术正在改变蛋鸡产业的现状。传统上，每年有数亿雄性雏鸡在孵化后不久被扑杀，通常采用“搅碎”等残酷方式。该技术允许在孵化前识别蛋的性别，只孵化雌性蛋，从而避免了雄性雏鸡的无谓牺牲。这项技术已在欧洲广泛应用，并在美国有了初步的推广，如NestFresh品牌已在部分地区上市。

🌱 消费者如何支持人道产业：文章鼓励消费者通过购买带有“Humanely Hatched”标签的NestFresh鸡蛋来支持“卵内性别鉴定”技术的推广。这种选择能够直接影响市场，鼓励更多企业采纳更人道的生产方式，推动整个蛋鸡产业向更负责任、更符合动物福利的方向发展。其他公司的表现将是市场风向标，消费者的支持至关重要。

This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. Most content is free, some is subscriber only; you can subscribe here. Also:

1: Asterisk Magazine is launching an AI blogging fellowship for people who know things about AI and want to get into blogging. August 24 - October 6, remote, compatible with holding a different full-time job on the side. You will do Zoom calls with peers, mentors, and people who will motivate you to write things; at the end you will have some articles that will get published on Asterisk's website and some assistance in getting a longer-term platform. I’m one of the mentors; others include Dean Ball (White House AI senior policy advisor), Timothy Lee (Understanding AI) and Sam Bowman (Anthropic). Read more here, apply here.

2: Hackers have been targeting the AI safety community the past two weeks. Methods include phishing emails (asking people to log in to deal with critical safety issues, but giving a fake link that looks like the real website), email bombs, fake Google Calendar invites, and fake AI podcast invitations. Stay safe and don’t enter your password anywhere without confirming that it’s the site you think it is.

3: From ACX grantee Innovate Animal Ag:

In polling, only 10% of Americans correctly identify that male chicks in the egg industry are killed shortly after hatching. A plurality mistakenly believe these chicks are raised for meat, and another 10% even think that male chickens can lay eggs. Most people are surprised, and often disturbed, to learn the truth: in the United States alone, approximately 350 million male chicks are routinely culled each year, typically by methods such as maceration (being ground up alive).

IAA is promoting a technological solution - in ovo sexing - that lets farmers identify eggs by sex and only hatch the female ones. This is already widespread in Europe, but recently got its first American champion in NestFresh, available at Whole Foods in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada now, and elsewhere later this year. Other companies are watching their performance - so if you support this effort, consider buying NestFresh eggs with the "Humanely Hatched" label. Read more here.