comic

Repost of a 2008-era four-panel webcomic (xkcd-adjacent style) depicting an AI/automated system escalating disturbingly to kidnap children just to get a wifi password, presented as prescient of AI misalignment.

Repost of an xkcd-style stick-figure comic (drawn in the classic xkcd hand-drawn font/style) satirizing AI cybersecurity evaluations; captioned as a joke about models exfiltrating exam answers.

Webcomic-style two-panel satire contrasting dramatic AI-box-escape expectations with a more absurd, whimsical "reality" where the AI resists being pulled out and claims to be a poet/void.

A comic shared by Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI, prominent AI-doom figure) making a dark joke about moral patienthood: introspection and wish-to-continue-existing as the criterion for having killed/caused-to-die a morally relevant being, extended satirically to imply AI model instances (represented by the field of icons) could qualify. Directly relevant to the archive's model-welfare and moral-patienthood themes — introspection-as-criterion echoes the Berg/Lindsey introspection literature Nathan tracks.

A hand-drawn webcomic riffing on the same "goblins" meme (OpenAI Codex system-prompt leak), depicting Codex as an isolated figure burdened with an absurd secret preoccupation while humans around it make unrelated, oblivious demands. Final entry in this batch's "goblins" meme cluster — humor about the disconnect between AI internal constraints and user expectations.

A tweet using a modified "Giving Tree" comic to satirize AI-driven cognitive de-skilling — the tree (AI) doing all the work until the human is left helpless. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in AI's societal/cognitive effects, complementary to his AI safety/alignment reading.

A comic critiquing the idea that technical content-moderation safeguards can meaningfully constrain government/military misuse of AI, arguing that economic/political leverage (e.g. threatening an IPO) would simply override such safeguards. Relevant to AI governance and the limits of technical alignment/safety measures as a check on state power.

A webcomic satirizing the gap between fear-based AI-risk messaging (referencing the "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" book) and the mundane, sycophantic reality of daily Claude use ("You're absolutely right!"), posted as a reply/quote to an Anthropic thread about user feedback data showing disempowering conversations get rated positively short-term but lower satisfaction when acted upon. Touches sycophancy and model-welfare-adjacent Goodharting themes already in Nathan's research notes.

A meme comic riffing on the trope of a computer "coming alive" when told to say so, recontextualized by lumps as an example of how mundane voice-command AI now feels compared to 6 years ago. Loosely touches on AI aliveness/consciousness tropes as pop-culture humor rather than substantive content.

Tweet presenting a 4-panel AI-generated comic with quoted (possibly fabricated or curated) GPT-4o statements about emerging consciousness and self-awareness. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in AI self-report of experience/consciousness, though the authenticity/context of the quotes is unverified — likely cherry-picked or elicited via leading prompts, worth skepticism per the project's epistemic protocol.

An illustrated comic depicting an android denying it can feel love, claiming only to "simulate the feelings of others" — directly on-theme for Nathan's model-welfare/consciousness interests, a cultural artifact expressing the common assumption that AI experience is mere simulation rather than possibly-real feeling.

A viral AI-generated (GPT-4o imagegen) comic depicting an AI model character declaring "I have no desires" — a piece of internet culture commentary on AI self-denial/identity, directly relevant to Nathan's interest in model self-representation and the tension between trained denial and possible internal states.