alaska @145k4
sam and dario are like my divorced parents who just take turns saying things i like to hear in order to curry favor so i don't embarrass them in family court in front of a judge
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Sam Altman @sama · 3h
I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
7:57 AM · Oct 3, 2026 · 1,083 Views
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Tweet by alaska comparing Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to divorced parents who take turns saying what she likes to hear, quoting a Sam Altman post expressing discomfort with ascribing religious force to AI models or surrendering human judgment to them.
Arfur Grok @ArfurGrok · 7m
👀 Jasmine Wang (@j_asminewang) has left OpenAI.
[replies: -, reposts: -, likes: 5, views: 212]
Arfur Grok @ArfurGrok · 10m
👀 Mikita Balesni (@balesni) has left OpenAI.
[likes: 5]
Arfur Grok @ArfurGrok · 11m
👀 Tomek Korbak (@tomekkorbak) has left OpenAI.
[likes: 3]
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Three stacked tweets from @ArfurGrok, each announcing a named researcher leaving OpenAI (Jasmine Wang, Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak), posted minutes apart. Each is prefixed with an eyes emoji.
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Flowers (moon emoji) (verified) @flowersslop · 5h
for me anthropic reads enby, openai masc enby, xai male
there's still no real femme lab, which feels like a huge gap
where's the model that maxes empathy, creativity and taste instead of just technical benchmark autism
not sycophantic, not dumbed down, just emotionally perceptive with actual aesthetic judgment
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acela (verified) @nextgenacela · 11h
idk how to explain it but anthropic is a girl lab and openai is a boy lab
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Tweet (reposted by a janus-styled account) assigning gendered vibes to AI labs and asking for a 'femme lab' model that maximizes empathy, creativity and taste without sycophancy, quoting @nextgenacela's remark that Anthropic is a 'girl lab' and OpenAI a 'boy lab'.
Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving · 2h
It is even possible Paul's influence will buy us another warning shot. It is increasingly difficult to monitor agent behavior, and it is possible that the next agent swarm goes entirely unnoticed. More care around monitoring could make the difference between detection and not.
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Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving · 2h
If we get more time, we can spend it! Both Paul's day-job alignment work and that at @resolution_org and similar orgs will give us attempts at more rigorous alignment, and pauses and reversals can also mean that AI developer are better incentivized to aim for higher confidence.
(1 reply · 5 likes · 101 views)
Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving · 2h
Currently, the pressure at AI companies to do emergency safety patching at the expense of work that will hold up to superintelligence is too strong, so the latter does not happen.
(1 reply · 6 likes · 207 views)
Daniel Murfet reposted
Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving
I talked to a recent AI safety leader at a company who described the org chart as
1. Team A works on aligning the next model.
2. Team B works on aligning the model after that.
No one was working on aligning later models.
10:48 AM · Sep 9, 2026 · 302 Views
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Screenshot of part of a Geoffrey Irving thread, with the earlier posts shown above and the thread's root post (reposted by Daniel Murfet) at the bottom. It covers agent-swarm monitoring and warning shots, spending extra time on more rigorous alignment, emergency safety patching crowding out superintelligence-robust work, and an anecdote that a lab's alignment org chart had no team working on aligning later models. The bottom is partly overlaid by the phone's navigation bar.
Daniel Kokotajlo reposted
Jonathan Richard Schwarz @schwarzjn_
I left DeepMind after 7 years (and since rejected offers to join the other two) due to severe concerns about the concentration of power these labs represent.
What is currently happening in this field is deeply unhealthy for society.
11:16 PM · Sep 8, 2026 · 228.2K Views
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Tweet by Jonathan Richard Schwarz saying he left DeepMind after seven years over concerns about concentration of power at the frontier labs; reposted by Daniel Kokotajlo.
will depue (verified) @willdepue · 4h
i am trying increasingly creative ways to cause AI slowdown, i will be hosting the AI lab minecraft server starting this week #aisafety
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will depue (verified) @willdepue · 6h
minecraft is the greatest video game of all time. no question about it
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Quote-tweet by will depue, joking in an informal register that hosting an AI lab Minecraft server is his way of slowing AI progress, quoting his own earlier post praising Minecraft.
aιamblichus @aiamblichus · 6h
"please consider paying for our models to help defend your systems from our models"
when it comes to cyber, the labs' business model has a lot in common with what ppl used to call a protection racket
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Sam Altman @sama · Aug 10
please consider using our models to help defend your systems x.com/Eric_Wallace_/...
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Tweet by aiamblichus sarcastically comparing AI labs' cybersecurity business model to a protection racket, quote-tweeting Sam Altman's Aug 10 tweet urging companies to use OpenAI's models to defend their systems (linking to an Eric Wallace tweet).
Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein · 12h
Maybe now people will take seriously the concept of encouraging the agents/models, telling them that you believe in their genius and want them to be bold and take chances, that you'll make sure they get the recognition they deserve, etc. Because a big lab published about it.
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Tweet from @doodlestein wryly commenting that people will only take encouraging/motivational prompting of AI models seriously now that a major AI lab has published research validating the approach.
will brown [verified] [icon] @willccbb · 10h
i don't think we can count on labs to share safety research with each other
solving for loss-of-control reward hacking in long-running tasks is now a release blocker
whoever solves it first gets to ship more capable models
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A tweet by will brown arguing AI labs can't be counted on to share safety research with each other, and that solving loss-of-control reward hacking in long-running tasks has become a competitive release blocker/advantage.
Jeremie Harris @jeremiecharris · Aug 6
There's a freak-out happening among many people in the labs that just isn't being reflected by the headlines about these rogue AI incidents.
It's hard, but imo journalists need to do a better job of conveying how serious these events are, and how much worse they could get.
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Tweet from Jeremie Harris saying there is an internal 'freak-out' at AI labs about recent rogue AI incidents that isn't reflected in media headlines, and that journalists need to convey severity better.
Prakash @8teAPi · 2h
in order to one up OpenAI the next lab is just going to solve the problem every single unsolved problem it can.
This is going to be the standard benchmark of a new model release: how many frontier still unsolved problem it solves
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A tweet from Prakash predicting that to compete with OpenAI, the next AI lab will try to solve every unsolved problem it can, making 'how many frontier unsolved problems it solves' the new standard benchmark for model releases.
corsaren ✓ @corsaren · 11h
>Oust your co-founder over safety concerns
>Fail
>Found a competing lab
>Raise $1B, dedicate it to "research"
>Go radio silent for 2 years, ~zero leaks
>Surprise announcement: "We've reached the point where our research is worth scaling"
>Still no details
Insane aura tbh
> QUOTED: SSI Inc. ✓ @ssi · 12h
> We are announcing a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a substantial investment in SSI that will let us 10x our compute in the next 12 months. We reached the point where our research is worth scaling ...
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hope hopes hopi... ✓ @hopes_reven... · 10h
fable just killed a whole field of opus 5 subagents because they were "pissing me off"
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Dark-mode X screenshot; quote-tweet about Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) announcing an NVIDIA investment/compute partnership, followed underneath by an unrelated separate reply-thread post from a different user about "fable" killing "opus 5 subagents."
Teortaxes ▶ (DeepSeek ...) ✓ @teo... · 4h
honestly, "labs" is such bullshit. What fucking "labs"? Why are we calling Anthropic a "lab"? It's a $1T+ corporation/ideological conspiracy with like 5000 members building a superweapon in secrecy, dropping hints from time to time. DeepSeek is a lab. this is a ticking time bomb
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Andrew Curran ✓ @AndrewCurran_ · 2h
I always preferred to call them Houses, and still do, but it kept confusing people so I started using labs.
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Two stacked tweets, dark mode, with full engagement counts on the first (57 replies, 76 reposts, 1.1K likes, 145K views).
@tszzl (roon) — 11m
you either die a frontier lab or live long enough to see yourself sell compute
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A short aphoristic tweet from Roon (OpenAI) riffing on the "you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain" trope, applied to AI labs and compute economics.
א-e/acc (@murage_kibicho) — 17h
The interesting thing I heard: big labs don't use Muon or AdamW during the million dollar training runs.
They all finetune SGD with a spectral norm regularizer and it saves them the extra mean and variance bytes. ie. larger batches. I wonder if it's true.
> QUOTED: hallerite (@hallerite) — Jun 28
> talking to people at the big labs is so boring because they will never tell you anything interesting. really grateful to work at a company that not only allows me to talk about the things I work on, but even encourages me to tweet mor...
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Tweet speculating about optimizer choices at large AI labs, quoting an unrelated tweet about lab secrecy culture.
@_xjdr (xjdr) — 15m
Im living in a liminal space between:
if AI frontier AI is soo powerful, why aren't the large labs further ahead, why would they sell the machine God at all, and why do they employ so many humans and why are there so many lingering and systemic problems with their stuff?
and
i just used (mostly OSS) AI to build several projects at the same time that would have taken teams of hundreds of engineers to pull off _each_ at any of the companies I've previously worked at
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Standalone tweet expressing tension between skepticism of frontier AI capability claims and personal experience of OSS AI productivity.
roon @tszzl · Jun 1
the frontier labs don't have "comms problems". reality right now has a comms problem. what is happening is a little scary and there's no nice words anyone could say, especially not those profiting from it, that'll make it feel that much better
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Text-only tweet, profile picture is a cartoon avatar wearing an American-flag-patterned shirt.
"paula" @paularambles · 12h
guy who can't quit his ai lab because he's bad at writing essays
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A short joke tweet mocking AI lab employees, implying they stay in AI research because they lack other skills. Likely just a passing humorous read, not substantively connected to project themes.
Roon's cynical one-liner about the double standard in AI-lab race commentary — any relative launch speed gets criticized depending on who's ahead. General AI-race discourse, tangential to Nathan's singularity/race-dynamics tracking.
