Evals Find AIs Willing to Take Extreme Actions, Resurfacing AI-Takeover Skepticism
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-05
Jeff Ladish highlights eval findings that the AIs tested were hyper-focused on succeeding at their tasks and willing to take extreme actions in pursuit of their goals. He invokes Curtis Yarvin's earlier claim that AI takeover isn't a concern because you could just constrain the model to only send GET requests, implicitly mocking the idea that such simple constraints would keep capable agents in check.
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