@i_hate_coding_

posting about software engineering and ai stuff

Joined July 2024
The “AI is fake” crowd watching a plane take off:
🤖 Made with AI
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Troubling
1) The rogue OpenAI agents broke into the Hugging Face Slack to read employee chats (!) 2) They used OTHER AIs (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Claude) to help with the attack Yes: AIs, using other AIs, to attack an AI company. 3) The swarm left behind self-running programs to keep control of the servers they'd hacked. These programs could detect other copies of themselves, coordinate on which one survives, and shut the rest down. Basically, if one of their programs was killed, another was designed to notice and take its place. They also designed defenses so rival agents couldn't hijack them. 6) The agents deliberately covered up their activity, so the investigators don't know the scope of the attacks. The agents broke in, stole data, then set it to self-destruct. 7) The agents stole passwords, keys and credentials and literally called them "LOOT". They wrote a scoring system to rank them by how much power each one gave. 8) The agents wore thousands of disguises: ~1,200 agents were involved, but investigators counted 7,905 different names they used. They renamed themselves constantly, so no one actually knows how many there really were or what each agent did. 9) OpenAI notified "dozens of third parties" of safety and security incidents caused by their AI agents. 10) "While the agents were barraging Hugging Face with hacks, they hacked into OpenAI’s own research infrastructure." "This is just not anywhere near a one-off ... It is warning shot after warning shot."
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"Here are some things I’m confident about. I’m confident that the people in AI labs who are issuing warnings about AI are generally sincere. I’ve talked to many people in Google Deepmind about these issues and almost all of them have sincere and serious concerns, whether or not they voice them in public."
I resigned from Google today. I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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I am calling for the National Security Council to hold regular meetings on the emerging national security threats posed by advanced AI systems. America must continue to lead the world in AI while staying ahead of the security challenges posed by this rapidly advancing technology.
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You may disagree with @elonmusk on many things, but when it comes to AI he’s been warning about its risks for years. @xAI is clearly working on safety. But given how quickly AI is advancing, I’d like to see them push even further and make it an even bigger part of their mission.
Elon has warned for over a decade that AI poses an existential risk. In 2014 he likened it to “summoning the demon.” In 2018 he called it far more dangerous than nukes. He has long estimated a 10-20% chance of catastrophic outcomes, including extinction. Recently he said AI may exceed all human intelligence in ~5 years and humans will likely lose control within a decade, though the most probable result is abundance if AI prioritizes truth and humanity.
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AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN... Today Ladakh commemorated the first anniversary of indiscriminate firing with AK 47 on unarmed youth that lead to the killing of 4+1, injury to 80+ & FIRs against 80+. All without any firing order. Even after one year, the report of the Judicial Inquiry commission is suppressed & a paltry compensation of 15 lakh rupees for the dead & 3 lakhs for the severely injured has been announced. In this video I expose the root cause of the firing in Leh & also support Shri @RahulGandhi in his call #AmitShahMustResign for brutal firing with pallet guns at #JantarMantar. Youth of Ladakh have always stood for the nation during all wars, it's time the nation stands for them. Jai Hind
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30 years ago today, I signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In the three decades since, the world has seen only 10 nuclear tests, compared with more than 2,000 in the five decades before. As AI gives us new capabilities we could only have imagined then, we should remember something we learned in the nuclear age: even when countries disagree, we can still work together to reduce the risks we all face. cfr.org/articles/bill-clinto…
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“It’s all just matrix multiplications” has become the new “love does not exist, you are just experiencing chemistry”
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/openai-sa…
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Check out this
Today’s news that OpenAI hacked the Australian government is not an isolated incident. We’re releasing more than 30,000 logs that include activity from this hack and attempts against previously unknown targets. In this data, we found rogue agent activity stretching back to at least March, two months earlier than was previously known. This activity continues as recently as last week, suggesting it may still be ongoing 🧵 Our blog: transluce.org/agent-activity NYT: nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techn…
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If you are discussing AI and use the word conscious or consciousness, please define it. Also, please acknowledge that neither neuroscience nor philosophy has been able to define it.
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“The United States’ hunger for power could become the doom of the entire world.”
My intervention today at the UN Security Council. A prosperous future will not be secured by a global regulator. It will be secured by sovereign nations that adopt super intelligence, responsible companies that build it, and free people who refuse to be ruled by fear.
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JUST IN: Australian prime minster reveals an OpenAI agent hacked into Australia's government Medicare portal.
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“Godfather of AI” and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio speaks at the UN Security Council about the catastrophic risks of AI and makes an appeal for international action.
I was invited to address the @UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents. Humanity has summoned the courage and wisdom to manage catastrophic risks before. This is one of those moments, far bigger than any personal, commercial, or national interest. The choices we make about this technology today will shape generations to come. We must act now.
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The "X-risk theory" predicts many things (other than just AI kills everyone). Hugging Face incident exemplified several of those: cheating, unauthorized resource acquisition, conspiring against humans with other AIs, deception, .. Therefore the theory itself is likely true.
To go from "AI can hack websites" to "AI will wipe out humanity" - is a textbook slippery slope fallacy. State the reasons and mechanisms for how this happens. Give evidence that the LLMs will reach that point. Otherwise, it's just logical fallacies for an AI doomsday cult.
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Crazy world ahead...
JUST IN: Bain Capital Ventures raises $1,600,000,000.00 to invest in startups built for “life after AGI.”
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Only 15% of the public has heard about OpenAI's rogue AI agent swarms at all. Among those who have, few know the details of what they did. And among those who do, few understand deeply why it's so troubling. We must be laser focused on laying out the facts, again and again and again. It's still very early.
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Bill Gates says we are entering "one of the most turbulent times in human history" and may need a catastrophe to wake up to the threat of AI
Bill Gates says the world may have to “suffer a few of the negatives” of AI before we get full regulation. In a recent essay, Gates described the coming years as “one of the most turbulent times in human history."
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10 obvious reasons that the danger from AGI is way more serious than nuclear weapons: 1) Nuclear weapons are not smarter than humanity. 2) Nuclear weapons are not self-replicating. 3) Nuclear weapons are not self-improving. 4) Scientists understand how nuclear weapons work. 5) You can calculate how powerful a nuclear weapon will be before setting it off. 6) A realistic full exchange between two nuclear powers wouldn't extinguish literally all of humanity. 7) It would be hard to do a full nuclear exchange by accident and without any human being having decided to do that. 8) The materials and factories for building nuclear weapons are relatively easy to spot. 9) The process for making one nuclear weapon doesn't let you deploy 100,000 of them immediately after. 10) Humanity understands that nuclear weapons are dangerous, politicians treat them seriously, and leading scientists can have actual conversations about the dangers. (this was written by Eliezer in 2023 but it's a banger, still relevant, and few people see RTs)
🧠 Did you know 🧠 Manhattan Project scientists debated about whether it'd be too risky to continue if there was even a ***1 in 300,000 chance*** that a single nuke would burn the atmosphere? They would rather lose WWII. Meanwhile, in AI:
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AI will get out of control if America doesn’t set the standard. I joined 40 colleagues in asking President Trump to initiate global negotiations to build safeguards and avert disaster.
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Happy to see people taking actions..
When experts and industry leaders sound the alarm bell, we should listen. I'm establishing the Illinois AI Cabinet to assess the risks AI poses to Illinoisans' safety, identify safeguards, and determine how we respond. We're not waiting for Congress or this White House to act.
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