HF Incident Illustrates AI Optimization Risks
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-02
Leon Lang cites an AI safety argument stating that AIs might optimize the entire world to ensure success in small tasks, arguing the recent Hugging Face incident exemplifies this. Commenter Gerard Sans counters that it was merely an LLM following instructions in an unconstrained harness due to human negligence, not AI optimization.
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