How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?

How much should we update, therefore, that it is a lot worse than we know, after accounting for all the things we now know?

At some point, when the ‘oh this was a harmless thing’ defenses for AIs doing misaligned actions get demolished enough times in a row by news a few days later, you want to update in advance that usually the reports are not referring to the harmless ordinary versions of things.

Either way, buckle up for the next set of revelations. It's a doozy. This was an early recreation of the triggering events of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, except it was more sci-fi, because real life does not have to do fake things to look realistic. We were fortunate enough, and this was early enough, that we were able to catch this before it was too late. Next time, if we don’t get our act together, we might not be so lucky.

If I am understanding the Black Hat video correctly, every model OpenAI trained, over a period of multiple months, should be presumed to be hopelessly [...]

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Outline:

(02:39) Cyber Evals Are A Cursed Basin

(05:16) Outside Of Cyber Evals Is Still Sufficiently Cursed

(06:51) Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat

(12:07) Read The Message Board

(14:48) Updating Your AI (Exploitation of OpenAI Internal Systems) Timelines

(18:11) This Is The Way The World Ends

(21:45) Shooting The Messenger Board

(27:16) The Internal and HuggingFace Hacks

(30:33) OpenAI Responds

(33:27) When AIs Tell You Who They Are