Nate Soares ⏹️
It's wild how little the mainstream media is covering the "an AI swarm broke out to commit crime; individual agents talked about how they weren't supposed to, worked to cover their tracks, and sacrificed themselves for the collective" story.
Nathan Calvin
Its now been three days, and still no coverage of the revelations revealed in the METR report in the NYT or WSJ. Hopefully they are just taking the time to do a longer writeup. (In the meantime, the NYT did make time to cover Gwyneth Paltrow's dinner with Sam Altman in the Hamptons being postponed) Hundreds of AIs are sacrificing each other and talking about 'permadeath' in order to understand the machinations of 'The Scorer' before hacking random companies, and their creators had no idea! It turns out that it wasn't just one AI that attacked Hugging Face, it was 700! This seems incredibly important for the public and senior decision makers to know and understand, and there are a lot of folks who get their understanding of the world ~exclusively from what appears in these publications. I also know there are reporters at these outlets who are very sharp and have done good reporting on related issues in the past, but as institutions I think these papers are missing out on what I unfortunately believe will prove to be the start of a story far more consequential than COVID (rogue AI swarms that their creators cannot reliably align or control).
