Reddit argues AI labs may not be faking alignment concerns, citing OpenAI's half-trained model
c9joe · reddit · 2026-09-13
- The poster pushes back on the popular claim that AI labs exaggerate alignment problems for marketing, asking what if they aren't.
- Key evidence: OpenAI once had a half-trained model solve a Millennium Prize problem — evidence, in the author's view, of genuinely surprising capability emergence.
- The author speculates something serious recently happened inside the labs that they're not ready to disclose publicly, urging readers to take alignment risk seriously.
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