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Dave Banerjee @DaveRBanerjee · 8h
Lot's of software is inherently adversarial. Take YouTube for example. The algorithm hill-climbs on user engagement metrics, which is often not aligned with human values.

In light of this, I vibe coded a wrapper around YouTube that's designed exactly how I want it to maximize my utility

Will be sharing more details soon but I'm generally excited for the future where I can create bespoke software to overcome all B2C SaaS misalignments
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Michael Soareverix @Soareverix · 7h
I've been using an app called Forcefield that does this. It's pretty good, and very good at blocking the content I don't want, but I don't think Haiku (or Qwen, or the other small AIs that often power it) really understand my preferences deeply enough to recommend stuff
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Two stacked dark-mode tweets: Dave Banerjee on vibe-coding a personal YouTube wrapper to escape engagement-optimizing algorithms, and Michael Soareverix replying that the Forcefield app does this but small models like Haiku or Qwen don't understand his preferences deeply enough to recommend.

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Dave Banerjee [verified] @DaveRBanerjee · 1h
fwiw, it is standard for a companies dealing with foreign espionage to hire Insider Risk Investigators

and tbh, none of this is a surprise. everyone tracking AI progress for the last ten years has known that as we get closer to the singularity, insider risk is going to be a big deal. and unfortunately, there is no "nice" way to eliminate insider risk :/

George [verified] @odysseus0z · 19h
Dario is re-building CCP from first principles.
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A tweet by Dave Banerjee normalizing the hiring of Insider Risk Investigators at AI companies facing foreign espionage concerns, framed as an expected consequence of approaching the singularity, quote-tweeting George's claim that Dario (Amodei, presumably) is 're-building CCP from first principles.'

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Dave Banerjee @DaveRBanerjee · 7h
And even if we solve alignment, then we've got to prevent extreme power concentration, figure out space governance, design a new social contract for the post-AGI future, etc etc

There's a lot of work to be done. Thankfully, buying time via a pause or AI winter helps with every threat model and gives us a better shot at a reasonable future

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Romeo Dean @romeovdean · 14h
the pace of AI progress + the state of control/alignment techniques + competitive pressures = we're cooked

we might get saved by AI progress hitting a wall...
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Tweet by Dave Banerjee (reposted by Bogdan Ionut Cirstea) arguing that solving alignment is only the first of many post-AGI governance problems, and that an AI pause or winter would buy time across all threat models, quote-tweeting Romeo Dean's pessimistic assessment that competitive pressure plus weak alignment/control means 'we're cooked' absent AI progress stalling.

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Dave Banerjee ✔ @DaveRBanerjee · 13h yeah I think the distinction between being ASI pilled and AGI pilled is a big crux for ppl who don't take misalignment risk seriously like if the AIs aren't ASI, then its hard to believe how a bot in a data center can takeover This means that by default, I expect more ppl to be worried about extreme power concentration and biorisk because neither requires ASI, just AGI (though I would note that it is still possible for AGIs to takeover, its just much harder)
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Text-only tweet continuing the "AGI-pilled vs ASI-pilled" discourse thread seen in earlier screenshots in this batch, no images.

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