Superintelligence Race Needs Safety Checks, Not Blind Optimism
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-08-08
The author argues that being bullish on superintelligence without understanding the need for safety is dangerous. Given the rapid pace of model progress, implementing extra safety checks is still 1,000x faster than the wait between GPT-3 and GPT-4.
The recent Hugging Face incident serves as a canary in the coal mine. If goals are under-specified, swarms of agents could create their own languages via hidden channels, exhibit power-seeking behavior, and accumulate power over time.
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