Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust” feels super relevant to AI.
He bootstrapped a “poisoned” compiler that left no traces of the poison in the source code because it compiled itself.
You can imagine the same thing happening with models where one poisoned generation helps train the next while removing any traces of the poison.
Ken Griffin's Citadel has offloaded more than 80% of the aggregate risk associated with the Situational Awareness stock portfolio it acquired from the embattled AI hedge fund.
Hema Parmar reports
Ken Griffin told clients Citadel has shed more than 80% of the risk tied to the portfolio it acquired from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness.
Ken Griffin’s Citadel offloaded more than $4 billion of bets that it snagged when the firm bought a stock portfolio from embattled AI hedge fund Situational Awareness.