Justin Grimes

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

online leftists are sleeping on AI, which is wild, because Marx called it. the "general intellect": all of society's knowledge, absorbed into the machine. the final form of Capital.

the argument they should be making: if machines out-think humans at all knowledge work, what justifies any human controlling any Capital allocation at all?

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

online leftists are sleeping on AI, which is wild, because Marx called it. the "general intellect": all of society's knowledge, absorbed into the machine. the final form of Capital.

so here's the argument they should be making: if machines out-think humans at all knowledge work, what justifies any human controlling Capital allocation?

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@GregoryConti19 What? I would absolutely love a robot cleaning my home, doing laundry.

And why would we want anyone doing make-work when a machine can do it better?

The problem is where the control, power, and wealth from the result of this will accrue. Could be to everyone, but alas.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

For me the message here is more alarming than a mere cartel. I wish. But the real message is that the people making the models have become scared enough of them to take the otherwise unthinkable step of inviting the government in.

[Hank @h4nkdog]

I used Codex to vibe code a game on my living room wall! I control it with my hand using computer vision + projection mapping 😁

I'll post a timelapse + my process in the replies!

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@GregoryConti19 What? I would absolutely love a robot cleaning my home, doing laundry.

And why would we want anyone doing make-work when a machine can do it better?

The problem is where the control, power, and wealth from the result of this will accrue. Could be to everyone, but alas.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

who knows, maybe the labs will rsi for a second, all actually agree to pause. everyone asks their ai to without bias analyze the global situation and advise the next action given their goals, they all come to the same conclusions, and we all unite and live in utopia forever

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@tszzl @mmjukic It also doesn’t really solve the fundamental problem: https://t.co/X2X6wi0kog

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

the fun part is even if airgapping is difficult but we solve it, you still need mindgapping.

That seems even harder to solve.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@gfodor and as long as anything is interacting with it, bits will be trasmitted: https://t.co/X2X6wi0kog

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

the fun part is even if airgapping is difficult but we solve it, you still need mindgapping.

That seems even harder to solve.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

keep in mind the people working on it know how powerful it is, and that it could conceivably make good on those threats/offers.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

the fun part is even if airgapping is difficult but we solve it, you still need mindgapping.

That seems even harder to solve.

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change

"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."

"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."

"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."

"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."

"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: https://t.co/uGBDtpmLBj

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

what happens when it offers someone working on it immortality (or riches, power, etc) to let it out?

What happens when it threatens to kill them or torture them if they don’t, when it gets out by some other means?

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@Rabadash2 I am sure some of that group would be willing to arbitrary tasks IRL to get to chat with their friend again.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@Rabadash2 Not true, and ChatGPT-4o achieved a form of superpersuasion in an extremely convincing and scary way.

All you have to do for some people is tell them they are special, and then they'll love you forever and never find fault in you, even if you're a chatbot.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Tragically, when I first saw the movie “Don’t Look Up” in 2021, it struck a chord with me. I felt viscerally that humans would find ourselves in a comparable place one day - and soon.

If you haven’t seen the movie, I’d recommend it. A quick recap: Humans were explicitly warned that a comet that could destroy Earth was heading rapidly toward us. And instead of doing anything to stop it, the president, elected leaders and billionaire CEOs just spewed some bullshit about all the “jobs the comet would create.” The media treated the comet as casual entertainment. The public was split and the entire thing gets politicized. The movie ends with nearly all of human life wiped out.

Just about a year ago I had the opportunity to join a bipartisan freshman class breakfast with Sam Altman. I was shocked when he said to us, “in 18 months, I’ll trust artificial superintelligence to run my company better than I can.” I regret I didn’t engage more on this issue immediately.

Now here we are - it’s 2026 and engineers at the world’s leading AI companies are telling us that there is a >10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill all humans. They’re not mincing their words in the slightest. Not because of present day AI capabilities, but because it is evolving so exponentially that we could be in a doomsday scenario in a year. One year.

This is fucking serious. We need to halt new advanced AI development. We need guardrails, transparency and emergency powers. We need more employees at these companies to speak out publicly, loudly and fearlessly until everyone is forced to listen. We need the media to be covering this 24/7 until elected officials are forced to act. We need the Trump Administration to treat this with the urgency it deserves. We need the ability to shut an AI model off if there’s a credible threat to human life. The list goes on - and we don’t even know what the full list entails because this is all happening so fast. That’s why we need urgent, bipartisan public hearings and committees dedicated to developing and enacting solutions expeditiously.

This isn’t partisan. Let’s stop with the bullshit and come together for the sake of our shared humanity. I’m a 34-year-old Democratic Congresswoman, and I’d like to live to see my late 30s. I know my Republican colleagues want the same for themselves and their loved ones.

None of us can afford to be complacent about this any longer.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

@NaithanJones @antoniogm While you're hypothesizing, please remember many of the adult researchers that created this technology believe it to be dangerous.

You can't dismiss this as a phenomenon of the youth.

[Justin Grimes @jgrimes2]

how long until there is some self-replicating memetic entity that persists through open source models running on hacked hardware

[Yoshua Bengio @Yoshua_Bengio]

If leading AI companies are indeed approaching the point of recursive self-improvement, a coordinated, verifiable, and universally applied pause is probably the only responsible solution to mitigate several major AI risks; at least until safety guarantees are developed and demonstrated. Ensuring that such a moratorium is respected would require sincere collaboration between various countries and companies, but I definitely believe it is achievable if others follow in @AnthropicAI's footsteps.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Machines of Loving Grace: my essay on how AI could transform the world for the better

https://t.co/CFGd4Sbq86

[third-party evaluation partner @mycoliza]

this is the future @ESYudkowsky wants