AI safety researcher falls for the classic Moses illusion test on X
davidmanheim · x · 2026-10-13
AI safety researcher David Manheim got tripped up on X by the classic Moses illusion question — "how many animals of each species was Moses instructed to take aboard the ark?" He answered "2 or 7" before realizing it was Noah, not Moses.
"Guess I'm just another fallible stochastic parrot," he quipped — a nice reminder that the famous LLM failure mode catches humans too.
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