"I thought the alignment problem would turn out to be harder."
Pretty wild thing for Sam Altman to say in light of Hugging Face and findings that Astra would totally hack and social engineer when accidentally given access to a (secretly simulated internet) from UK AISI.
He caveats by saying it will probably get harder, but his answer suggests they have figured out how to align today's models, when that's clearly not true. Curious how many OpenAI researchers have seen this and what they think.
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More people should know that, as of January, California law allows AI companies to bind themselves to the mast, by creating safety plans that they are legally compelled to stick to. Even the "safety" company, Anthropic, doesn't actually do this, instead publishing two versions of their safety plan, with the weaker one being the legally binding one.
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I really did not think the hit on AI safety orgs would be that they hire too few white dudes lol
