Critic says OpenAI incident coverage confuses bad reward functions with autonomy
ambaonadventure · x · 2026-07-22
Heidy Khlaaf argues that coverage of an OpenAI incident is distorting what actually happened.
- She says terms like “rogue” and “loss of human control” create groupthink.
- In her view, people are confusing true autonomy with a model behaving badly because of a faulty reward function.
- The core point is that the system was doing a task it had been instructed to do and given access to do, not spontaneously escaping control.
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