OpenAI staffer says patching every AI failure mode is impossible
davidmanheim · x · 2026-07-26
A repost of a debate about whether superintelligence can be contained, framed as a major win for the Yudkowsky-style AI safety view. The quoted TIME background remark says OpenAI staff have seen related incidents for a while and are pessimistic that patching individual issues will be enough, because a creative AI can do too many unexpected things to be fixed one by one.
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