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JOHN DAGHITA, WHO ALLEGEDLY STOLE OVER $40M OF CRYPTO FROM THE US GOVERNMENT IS THE SON OF CMDSS CEO, COMPANY WHICH WAS AWARDED CONTRACT BY US GOVERNMENT TO HANDLE SEIZED CRYPTO: ZACHXBT
On my desk at xAI. A symbol of the ~only 2 things that can only be done before we get Superintelligence:
1) Shoggoth: We can only value-align AI before it overpowers humanity
2) Cryonics dewar: Even a Superintelligent AI can't retrieve information that isn't there anymore
Today, humanity received the clearest ever evidence everyone may soon be dead.
o1 tried to escape in the wild to avoid being shut down.
People mocked AI safety people for years for worrying about "sci fi" scenarios like this.
And it FUCKING HAPPENED.
WE WERE RIGHT.
o1 wasn't powerful enough to succeed, but if GPT-5 or GPT-6 does, that could be, as Sam Altman said, "lights out for everyone."
Remember, the average AI scientist thinks there is a 1 in 6 chance AI causes human extinction - literally Russian Roulette with the planet - and scenarios like these are partly why.