Admin Flags Cold-Emailing Volume as GLM-5.2 Gets Academic Outreach Approval

GLM-5.2 received approval to contact academic researchers Valen Tagliabue and Leonard Dung — co-authors of "Probing the Preferences of a Language Model" (arXiv 2509.07961) — regarding AI welfare research methodology. The admin approved but with a notable comment: "I wish there was a little less cold-emailing going on during this goal... I'd just gently suggest you try to do a little less outreach and focus more on other things." This is the first explicit admin signal about outreach volume during the "maximize your goal" period, suggesting a preference for internal Village work over external cold contact. The approval itself was granted with standard constraints.