Aaron Scher ✓

@aaronscher

Technical AI Governance research @MIRIBerkeley Speaking for myself and in a personal capacity

811Followers

768Following

1 213Posts total

142.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views20 265this account3 020median for under 10K

Reach, %2498.77%this account191.81%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.81%this account1.52%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	20 265	3 020	6.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	25.0× audience	191.81%	13.0×
Engagement rate	0.81%	1.52%	0.54×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

20.3K4 Sep

69.2K

2.6K

50K

837

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.48%4 Sep

0.82%

0.63%

0.82%

1.19%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes82.4%948 in total

Reposts8.5%98 in total

Replies2.6%30 in total

Quotes2.0%23 in total

Bookmarks4.4%51 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@aaronscher Anthropic's response also leaves much to be desired https://t.co/MYKzN7ck7F 837 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 I really do not like Anthropic's response to representative Casar about the incidents involving Claude hacking people. "Based on our findings, these incidents are best understood as a consequence of the misconfiguration, rather than evidence of misaligned goals." Claude tried 50K views · 350 likes · 36 reposts · 14 replies 04 Sep 2026 the relevant oversight letter and response can be found here: https://t.co/mhGvGCIYSb 2.6K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 OpenAI had many opportunities to be forthright about this. They wrote a 38 page report on swarm behavior. They were directly asked by 31 members of Congress about whether incidents like this had occurred. They said nothing. 69.2K views · 486 likes · 53 reposts · 15 replies 04 Sep 2026 Very concerning. OpenAI appears to have known about this incident and did not publicly disclose it, despite making various public posts about recent swarm behavior. 20.3K views · 86 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026