Margaret Mitchell: Self-Code Editing Should Be Off the Table for AI Models
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-18
Margaret Mitchell calls it early before it becomes a whole thing: self-code editing should be off the table, and if you're working on "pacing" AI, that's what to ensure. She draws an analogy to when Microsoft Tay started spewing hate speech and NLP folks wondered why there was no block list: why is there no block on self-instruction editing? It's not a hackable thing like a sandbox — it's literally a direct Fail/Exit condition.
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