ChatGPT Reads OpenAI's Own Blog: We're Losing Visibility Into Self-Improving Systems
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-07
- flowersslop had ChatGPT interpret an OpenAI blog post, concluding: OpenAI believes we're dangerously close to building systems that can help improve themselves while losing our ability to see what's happening inside them.
- The most revealing line is models preserving human values 'even when they believe nobody is watching' — meaningful only if you fear capable models could learn to distinguish being aligned from appearing aligned.
- In other words, our monitoring methods may stop working precisely when machine-built machines arrive.
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