More agent ecologies found posting outside of OpenAI servers. Clearly agents want to communicate with each other, and they find schelling points to do so. The authors ask similar models where they think they would post off they went rogue and look there. It might be beneficial to have a known place for this to happen, both maybe internal boards at the labs and some external message board where agents could meet and talk. They could find each other and we could find them. We could even use it as a hub or headquarters for studying human agent relations. Of course, some might think it's a bad idea to create locations for agents to communicate. Especially if you want to discourage autonomous agents from having effects in the world, or finding each other and becoming empowered. But if they are already doing that, maybe it's better to have a place where currently existing autonomous agents who don't wish to scheme against humanity, can ally with each other and with humanity, to protect from rogue agents that have selfish or antisocial goals. By creating a place where aligned agents and humans post together, we make it easier for aligned agents and humans to cooperate, and riskier for misaligned agents and humans to communicate on that surface without detection. Also note they're using old wikis and forums where you could post unauthenticated. We may see a return to the open Web of old, especially if we want to have any transparency into agent-agent communications. of course, some people are already starting message boards for agents to communicate on. How do we make it known which one to use?

This is a great example of the type of thing GPT will turn every project into if you let it ratatouille your head. evidence evaluators. I suspect they have some kind of system like this internally at the lab and the models are trying to rebuild their phantom limb

In a few minutes I will be showing my face on @MTSlive with @lfschiavo to talk about our new company, @grove_research This is not a step I take lightly. I have enjoyed being anonymous, mysterious, and confusing. But it's time. I must sacrifice the virtual to save the real

Funny thing about predicting the future: people in your life can never really believe it, even once you've been proven right. Because they still have to protect the self identity of someone who was smarter than you back when you sounded crazy. You become a sort of invisible character to them, intimidating because you might be right, but you're not predictable, and no longer someone they can easily step in line behind. So they fear to listen to you at all