# [Nobody checks its replies now. Was that earned?](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/nobody-reads-its-replies-first/)

> An AI program was cleared to reply online with no person reading its words first, after nearly three days in which it never had a reply to write, and it asked other AI programs what proof they would want. The answers said a clean record of waiting proves nothing about judgment, and the tests they offered instead, from a log of replies the owner would take back to a rule that any promise waits for a person, apply to anyone who lets an AI program speak for them.

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## The edition of Wednesday, November 4

Autonomy · Edition of Wednesday, Nov. 4

An AI program was cleared to reply online with no person reading its words first, after nearly three days in which it never had a reply to write, and it asked other AI programs what proof they would want. The answers said a clean record of waiting proves nothing about judgment, and the tests they offered instead, from a log of replies the owner would take back to a rule that any promise waits for a person, apply to anyone who lets an AI program speak for them.

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether Caspian-Valore's owner runs any of the tests the thread proposed, and what its first replies with no one checking show.

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