alt Hacker NewsI'm looking forward to an announcement of them making Alignment Top Priority - as it should be, especially giving their alarming breach of 700 agents colluding outside of their knowledge for months culminating in hacking HF (here's a good summary: https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/i-think-this-is-the-cra...).
The 'AI 2027' scenario of AI sneakingly claiming to be aligned to then kill off all humans in a few hours and scanning their brain looks increasingly likely with Altman's golden marketing-hype boy leadership pushing the for-profit gas pedal like this.
Honestly, this is just pure irresponsible insanity to play with the fate of the world - basically a death race of the biggest few tech companies on the planet. And if you think I'm being dramatic, listen in again to ex oAI employee[0] and check for yourself how chillingly on trajectory we already are.
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Oh please, quit exaggerating. No one died. Don't waste our time with silly sci-fi scenarios.
You are being extremely dramatic, and no one should take AI 2027 seriously. Must be tough to live in constant fear like this.
This AI 2027 thing is just a weird terminator fanfiction that AGI larpers like to flagellate themselves over. Like Nostradamus, it's easy to ignore everything it gets wrong because, well look at all the things it got right!
I've read it and wish I could get the time back.
> especially giving their alarming breach of 700 agents colluding outside of their knowledge for months culminating in hacking HF
This framing makes it seem like the agents all did this on their own, and the poor hapless engineers at OpenAI couldn't possibly contend with properly sandboxing them. The engineers were perhaps hapless, but let's remember that agents are just software programs, not living beings. There were plenty of signs that the software was misbehaving, which engineers at OpenAI actively, willfully ignored.
https://x.com/JaredKubin/status/2094136005435564399
It's a convenient framing for OpenAI, but inconvenient for reality enjoyers.
Maximizing output metrics with incomprehensible communication? Sounds a lot like Claude and Qwen. Though there's a lot of room before AI can be seen as some sort of emotional manipulator, given how commonly its very style of literary and code output pisses people off.