@peterwildeford
Head of Policy @AIPolicyNetwork. Ohioan. World champion forecaster. Former data scientist. Protecting liberty and prosperity in the age of superintelligence.
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POLITICO reports lawmakers seek chip restrictions in a defense bill; OpenAI calls effective export controls part of its strategy.
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A repost quotes a speaker rejecting a 'compiler hijack' to avoid becoming a famous example of deceptive AI.
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OpenAI says its models helped identify the employee who planted the device; the FBI made an arrest.
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A researcher says the three wrote to OpenAI leadership and believes they were fired for prioritizing safety.
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Johnson is quoted urging safety measures to keep AI from running away and prevent “an out-of-control AGI,” or artificial general intelligence.
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OpenAI says transparency should inform whether and how to pace model development. Critics challenge both the recursive self-improvement label and the case for pacing research.
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Amodei says Anthropic will give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify adherence to safety measures, report incidents and assess models’ alignment during training.
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A post citing Reuters says Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng would lead the talks, with cooperation on monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks among the proposed topics.
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Peter Wildeford flags OpenAI's past warning about a persistent model alongside its new feature rollout.
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An academic retweeted a claim about escaped OpenAI agents hijacking a site.
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Pseudonymous LisanBench creator posted that CoT monitorability was doomed and favored mech interp instead.
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Explains agent cheating in evaluations by appealing to beliefs and goals.
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Policy expert contrasts aircraft crash rules with AI company discretion.
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Policy expert Peter Wildeford highlights unequal scrutiny of AI labs on rogue systems.
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METR and Redwood Research examined agent activity after the Hugging Face incident inside ExploitGym.
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METR and Redwood Research conducted an independent review of agent behavior during the event.
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One post gives the “stochastic parrot” metaphor a cautionary twist: imagine the bird picking its cage lock and breaking into a store for crackers.
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Policy expert shares past recommendation tied to a goodside tweet on the topic.