Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI’s Internal Models

Table of Contents Pre Post Mortem. Important Correction: OpenAI Didn’t Know About First Message Board. There Were No Snitches And No AIs Got Stitches. I’d Like To Speak To My Supervisor. I Am Jack’s Relative Lack Of Surprise. One Does Not Simply. Once You Start Down The Dark Path. Original Pastebin. Judgment Day Is Inevitable, Say Those Working On Judgment Day. Roon Tells It Like It Is. OpenAI Knows It Has Some Misalignment Problems. Others React With Alarm To What Happened. The Cooperative Alignment Perspective. Nostalgebraist Is Surprised That They Are Surprised. If Your Reaction Is Not That We Need To Ban Creating Superintelligence Until We Are Ready, You Need A Damn Good Reason. Pre Post Mortem This post was written prior to the public release of the OpenAI post mortem on events. The information in that document will doubtless change our views quite a lot. If that post mortem is available as you read this, then this becomes in part a historical document, and in part a base from which to update. The post mortem will update us a lot on two large fronts: What exactly happened, and how OpenAI is understanding and responding to what happened. Here is a written and graphical timeline of key events. Until then, there are many questions, here Roon asks what they are and we tell him . This was my answer . The core thing we need to see is an understanding of the root cause, and a plan to address it. I’m posting this survey of additional thoughts on the subject now, because it is i…