Sam Altman in 2015: "Obviously we'd aggressively support all regulation"
2025: quietly lobbying to ban all regulation and attacking tiny watchdog groups
Previously we’ve mostly evaluated AI’s ability to solve relatively contained hacking problems (CTFs). Here we test AI agents’ abilities to infiltrate a network involving multiple computers and vulnerabilities
NEW P(DOOM) DROPPED: Anthropic co-founder thinks there is as high as a 1 in 10 chance everyone will soon be dead.
- How soon? 50% chance of ASI (not AGI) by 2028.
- "Superintelligence [safety] is about... how do we keep God in a box, and not let God out?"
- "AI might be the last invention we make"
- "I'm not immune to job loss. It's coming for all of us."
- Left OpenAI to found Anthropic because safety was not prioritized
- Recommends AI 2027. He says these timelines weren't just pulled out of thin air, but are based on data, scaling laws and clear scientific trends
xAI launched Grok 4 without any documentation of their safety testing. This is reckless and breaks with industry best practices followed by other major AI labs.
If xAI is going to be a frontier AI developer, they should act like one. 🧵
Because we have LLMs, we Can and Should Pursue Agentic Interpretability
Been Kim (@_beenkim), John Hewitt (@johnhewtt), Neel Nanda (@NeelNanda5), Noah Fiedel, Oyvind Tafjord
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