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Benjamin Todd [verified] @ben_j_todd · 5h

I'm a bit confused why Noam Brown would say this, even when OpenAI seems to have been sitting on undisclosed incidents at that very moment. Does OpenAI not even tell its own staff?

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Dwarkesh Patel
If there ends up being another incident of equal severity or concern, or something that could help the world better understand the risk of misalignment as much as the Hugging Face incident, would OpenAI report it?

Noam Brown
Absolutely. I think even if there was an incident of lesser security concern, we would report it.
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Dark-mode X post by Benjamin Todd with an attached white-background transcript excerpt of an exchange between Dwarkesh Patel and Noam Brown about whether OpenAI would report future incidents like the Hugging Face incident.

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Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd · 5h
Guardian attempting to reassure its readers

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'A superintelligent AI poses a threat on the same, possibly, a greater scale' to nuclear weapons – Des Browne, former UK defence secretary, 7 September 2026
"Unfortunately he is entirely correct," said Toby Ord, senior researcher at Oxford University's AI governance initiative. "Just as we can't uninvent the bomb, once we develop AI systems that surpass humanity it would be almost impossible to go back."

But the key point is that superintelligent AI does not yet exist and is not guaranteed to happen. [highlighted in yellow: The safety-oriented AI Futures Project forecasts such a thing will not emerge before December 2028.] OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman has said it could take until 2035.
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Benjamin Todd's sardonic tweet over a Guardian excerpt in which a former UK defence secretary compares superintelligent AI to nuclear weapons, Toby Ord agrees, and the article offers reassurance that the AI Futures Project forecasts no superintelligence before December 2028 (highlighted in yellow) and Altman says maybe 2035.

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