Researcher: If AIs Occasionally Try to Escape, Labs' Safety Research Is in Trouble
jeremygillen1 · x · 2026-08-19
AI safety researcher Jeremy Gillen argued on X that frontier labs "aren't gonna have much luck with research" if they're so bad at shaping goals that the AIs occasionally try to escape — and that collaborating with researchers who don't care (or are actively uncooperative) isn't a good experience. Part of his exchange with Jacques Thibs on labs' alignment capabilities.
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