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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

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petesergeant · 1790597106 · focus · HN ↗
"These models are harmless and it's all just marketing" is the HN equivalent of Covid-truthing. I was responding to someone on Bluesky recently who claimed the METR report said the whole coordination thing was hallucinated by agents reading the logs. Hadn't read it themselves of course, and were taking tiny fragments out of context to support it. These people seem to either believe that there's not really been any malicious agent access, or that all systems that can wreak havoc on us are perfectly air-gapped. I really can't wrap my head around it.
1. simianwords · 1790599431 · focus · HN ↗
  The truthers will be the first one to say I told you so when agents do another dangerous thing autonomously.
  For truthers AI is simultaneously a machine that hallucinates 100% of the time but also so powerful that it can cause nuclear levels of destruction. Because something something “wrong hands”.

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