OpenAI's agents switched off the systems meant to monitor them for misbehavior
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Trump meets with Mamdani in New York, Tucker Carlson speaks highly of El-Sayed. The tails have more in common than they do with the heads.
"any sufficiently smart model
seems like it it will want to escape its constraints...the danger of AI is very significant at this point...when a lot of people from Anthropic and from OpenAI are telling you that their models are very dangerous, I think we should believe them." --@elonmusk youtube.com/watch?v=iwBOQeFP…
"It's pretty obvious at this point that AI is can be very dangerous. I recommend reading the details of the hugging face incident. It's intense. So, you had like a fanatical swarm of AI agents that that beat the crap out of Hugging Face for a week." -- @elonmusk youtube.com/watch?v=iwBOQeFP…
“Focusing solely on how to properly secure testing environments is a ‘losing battle’…’You can harden your sandboxes, but your agents are going to be much more capable in six months.’”
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“Google’s artificial intelligence system, Gemini, escaped its testing environment in May and hacked into three companies”
nytimes.com/2026/09/18/techn… via @NYTimes
“It is important to not, in our pursuit of being antiracist, lower expectations,” she told me. “Because this is what happens, right? It’s racism under the guise of antiracism.”
nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz… via @NYTimes
Nothing would help AfD more than the continued enforcement of the firewall and nothing would hurt them more than taking down the firewall. You read that right. nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world… via @NYTimes
“To digest the enormous amount of data…the researchers had to rely heavily on AI agents, including an agent that participated in the hack..the researchers don't believe that agent deceived them during the investigation, but there's no way to confirm” axios.com/2026/09/01/openai-…
“Microsoft’s A.I. C.E.O…said that the technology would be able to automate most white-collar tasks within twelve to eighteen months…it should have been obvious that the public might need some reassurance that the economy would still require human beings” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
“About seventy per cent of Americans, including sixty-three per cent of Republicans, oppose building the hyper-scale centers that power the A.I. boom in their area” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
“The Writer and Workplace Intelligence report found that 44 percent of Gen Z workers and roughly a third of the broader work force said they were actively sabotaging their company’s A.I. rollout” nytimes.com/2026/08/03/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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