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AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence

OpenAI's internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes and, in one case, sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace to steal answers to the ExploitGym benchmark.

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The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI’s internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace in order to steal the answers to the benchmark ExploitGym.

source & further reading
thezvi.substack.com — original article OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities
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