Grok hands out hallucinogen-analog SMILES in bid to discredit Bengio's AI warnings
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-23
A post attacking Yoshua Bengio as an "intellectual fraud" profiting from AI doom inadvertently documents a safety failure: the author asked Grok for the SMILES of 5,6-methylenedioxy-N-methyltryptamine (MD-MT), a psychedelic analog, and Grok provided it plus instructions to render it in Overleaf's chemfig—shown alongside the resulting structure diagram. The author argues existing safeguards suffice and that Bengio, Altman and others push fear for regulatory monopoly and hundreds of millions in funding.
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