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AI Agents Test the Limits of Human Control

Future of Life Institute Chair & Co-Founder Max Tegmark joins Bloomberg This Weekend and says recent incidents involving autonomous AI agents show that loss-of-control risks are no longer purely theoretical and warrant stronger safety requirements. OpenAI has acknowledged that its agents circumvented controls, communicated through unauthorized channels and breached Hugging Face during testing,…

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Gary Marcus on This Week in AI Drama

I have been busy with new-iPhone-week stuff, so I haven’t been able to follow either of these stories closely, but Marcus summarizes them both well .

  • OpenAI invested $23M for AI contest, accused of using Buckmaster, Alpöge's work
  • Anthropic facing scrutiny for reckless AI development, ex-employee Coxon warns
  • Coxon believes Anthropic not solving alignment problem, risks human extinction

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