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We are not ready for persistent agents
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As I've been saying for months, we are truly not ready for persistent agents. 3 comments I want to make about this article: 1) We don't have the full picture It's a great summary of what happened in the HuggingFace <> OpenAI incident. You have to read it, but do understand we are still missing lots of important details to make any meaningful conclusions about this event. 2) The danger of AI anthropomorphism The anthropomorphism in this article is next level. I hope this doesn't become…
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_spAug 29
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface