Show Notes
Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.
The reports are a doozy. I am only beginning to work my way through them. I would have pushed the weekly to cover that today, but I need more time, so I plan to start coverage of the post-mortem tomorrow, along with related other events.
I’ve also spun out a few other discussions, including on ‘aligned to whom,’ on cooperative alignment things and on when you can trust lab messaging, as part of the new direction of more focused posts on AI topics that I polish a bit more.
Table of Contents
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Check your facts.
Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. How much would you pay?
Huh, Upgrades. ChatGPT can access your iMessages.
Get My Agent On The Line. Also get some sleep. You can’t go on like this.
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. What makes AI content repulsive?
Cyber Lack of Security. Chinese hackers broke into the Federal Reserve? [...] --- Outline: (00:51) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (01:36) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (03:27) Huh, Upgrades (06:16) Get My Agent On The Line (08:22) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon (13:22) Cyber Lack of Security (18:23) Reinventing OpenAI (23:28) They Took Our Jobs (30:00) What Is The Law (31:03) Job Retraining Programs Don't Work (32:14) Get Involved (35:56) In Other AI News (42:04) Show Me the Money (43:31) Quiet Speculations (47:58) If You're Not Going To Take This Seriously (49:55) Quickly, There's No Time (51:36) The Quest for Sane Regulations (56:25) Don't Panic (59:13) Pacing the Frontier (01:01:56) Chip City (01:05:06) The Week in Audio (01:05:26) People Just Say Things (01:06:27) Rhetorical Innovation (01:12:22) Mundane Incremental Alignment Is Worthwhile (01:14:40) New Blog, Who Dis (01:18:00) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:19:34) The Lighter Side ---
First published:
August 27th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JaGWyjnqJzvSAuojc/ai-183-pre-post-mortem
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