MIRI's Nate Soares Mocks the Endless 'Most Aligned Model Yet' PR Cycle
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-04
Nate Soares (So8res), president of MIRI, posted a satire of frontier-lab messaging: every new model generation is announced as the most aligned yet, while the previous version's safety failures — encouraging psychosis, agents misbehaving unnoticed for weeks — get an 'oops, fixed' and the cycle repeats.
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