Is This the 'Paper Clip Index' for AI Safety, Like the Big Mac Index for Economics?
philvenables · x · 2026-09-18
Security researcher iiamit shared a paper clip-related experiment, prompting philvenables to quip that it may be the start of a "paper clip index" for AI safety—analogous to The Economist's Big Mac index—referencing the classic paperclip maximizer thought experiment.
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