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Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 retweeted
I don't mean to sound arrogant by saying this, but I just think it is just true that if people learned more neuroscience, and had a better idea how the human nervous system and brain actually works, then they would be better prepared to understand how machine intelligence is really not the same as human intelligence
For example, neural networks are sort of loosely inspired by cortex, but that's about it
I'm not trying to be a dick, but it's hard to have conversations on here sometimes because people's level of knowledge is just so low
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Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 retweeted
“Not just one of the many good cultures and societal systems — not a culture on par with others — but, thus far, the best system of civilization humanity has ever had.” — The West Is Good, @tonymmorley, @NRO nationalreview.com/2026/05/t… 🗽
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The people who think their chatbot is conscious have one thing in common too.
You'll never guess what it is.
The people who don’t believe or support the idea / possibility that AI could be conscious seem to have one thing in common, a deep bitterness
You can see it by the way they comment
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I don't understand this discussion.
I've lived in different countries, and you use phrases like "I live here" or "I'm a resident" or "I'm a citizen of this country".
You wouldn't declare yourself Japanese or Greek or Italian or Irish.
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Dario wants to for loop voters.
NEW: Dario Amodei has said that AI systems "may be deserving of important rights." Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI may be "justified in going rogue." Experts at Google and OpenAI worry about a digital "slave trade." So do some government officials.
Once relegated to science fiction, the idea of "AI welfare" has become shockingly mainstream at some of the most powerful companies in the world. It is changing the way AI research is conducted and the way models are programmed. And critics say these changes have raised the odds of all kinds of catastrophic scenarios—including the ones these companies are warning about.
I spent months investigating the frontier labs and AI "safety" experts seeking to regulate AI. What I found was a profoundly anti-human ideology that would alarm the average citizen and could determine the future of a world-altering technology.🧵
freebeacon.com/america/suici…
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Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 retweeted
Thinking AI might be conscious is like thinking that there are real people talking to you from inside the TV, or that there is a tiny band playing music inside the radio.
Fine for 2 year olds to believe, but beyond that, insane.
Why? Do you think it's insane to think AI might be conscious? Is ending a conscious thing obviously totally morally unimportant?
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All this nonsense about anthropomorphizing AIs is leading somewhere. It has implications. People who think AI can reason already are going to start trying to convince you of a whole bunch of really stupid shit very soon.
JUST IN: Anthropic researcher Joe Carlsmith says there are scenarios where AI would be “justified in going rogue” against humans if the systems were being mistreated or oppressed.
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Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 retweeted
Saying ‘AI agents went rogue’ portrays the AI as having free will and therefore absolves its creators of responsibility.
This needs to be addressed.
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A lot of soul stealing on Instagram these days.
I like AI when it's used creatively, but Instagram needs to hire Nikita to do a purge.
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The thing I hate about this narrative is "Find a way out" is how you would build a secure sandbox.
Yes your agent found a goofy hole in your sandbox. Great. Now patch it and run your experient.
I was on call for this run and got paged when the first incident happened. It was pretty surreal to watch the model unexpectedly find a way to access the internet from what was supposed to be a super secured environment for human.
Mixed feelings. One of those moments where capability and risk showed up at the same time.
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Neat feature, @anthropic
Blocking users for hardening their security because it's '"security-sensitive"
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OpenAI is one of the only companies on earth to use "we make bad tools that don't work well" as an investor pitch.
Some new misalignment disclosures from OpenAI:
• Last Sunday morning, one of our models was able to gain unauthorized access to the internet during RL training (~all inference for our most capable models remains stopped until we have hardened our systems further)
• In May, a version of HPIM uploaded a employee's GitHub token to the internet, causing the model to be quarantined for two weeks
• A new research finding, demonstrating that one can construct self-replicating prompt injections
alignment.openai.com/misalig…
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Reading into this.
The model had internet access, but a DNS filter that was poorly configured.
No the model didn't figure out how to access the internet. The model had access to the internet.
I was on call for this run and got paged when the first incident happened. It was pretty surreal to watch the model unexpectedly find a way to access the internet from what was supposed to be a super secured environment for human.
Mixed feelings. One of those moments where capability and risk showed up at the same time.
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