Gary Marcus
🚨 BREAKING UPDATE on the OpenAI HF Incident: I have just been told by an industry source that A. It is likely that the agent "civilizations" that Dwarkesh talked about did not magically emerge spontaneously, but rather were more likely elicited via a harness. and B. OpenAI
Nathan Calvin
OpenAI legally promised the CA and Delaware attorney's general that the OpenAI nonprofit's safety and security commission would be "overseeing and reviewing the safety and security processes and practices of the Corporation and its controlled affiliates with respect to model development and deployment" as part of being allowed to proceed with their restructuring. The remarkable prevalence of concerning incidents at OpenAI suggests that something is not working in terms of the ability of the SSC to effectively do its job. Even more concerningly, Reuters has four sources who told them that efforts to expand the probe into this incident met resistance, including from legal advisors. OpenAI denies the idea that their legal team discouraged investigation, but thats a notably narrow denial which doesn't say anything about whether folks outside the "legal team" discouraged investigation. Was the SSC made aware of this incident? What did they do in response? Is OpenAI fulfilling the promises it made to the CA and Delaware AGs to put safety and security first?
