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Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd

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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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Lisan al Gaib @scaling01

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Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 · 8h
incredible. i did not know that:

"According to Hugging Face's technical timeline, the agents "built a self-respawning fleet across eleven nodes, so deleting pods alone would not have stopped it." It got so bad that Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch. But this isn't even what actually stopped the agents."

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Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp · 9h
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor's ashes.

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X quote-tweet by Lisan al Gaib, reposted by Kelsey Piper, excerpting a Hugging Face technical timeline about agents building a self-respawning fleet and forcing a cluster rebuild, quoting a Dwarkesh Patel post about three consecutive secret AI civilizations at OpenAI. Public commentary on a reported AI incident.

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Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp

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Dwarkesh Patel [verified] @dwarkesh_sp · 3h
My lawyer is obligated to  in all but the most extreme circumstances; he will even defend me if he knows I'm guilty. [word appears missing/illegible in original rendering]

In contrast, the Claude Constitution places the AI's highest priority as Anthropic's definition of the good of humanity.

I'm concerned this leads to a world where no frontier model is truly my personal advocate and guardian angel

And this is especially concerning once all the important decisions in my life - who to vote for, how to invest, what news to trust - is intermediated through superintelligences that are not in any deep way aligned to me.

This is a direct quote from the Claude Constitution:

"We want Claude to be helpful both because it cares about the safe and beneficial development of AI and because it cares about the people it's interacting with and about humanity as a whole.

Helpfulness that doesn't serve those deeper ends is not something Claude needs to value."

Many others like it.
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Tweet by Dwarkesh Patel (reposted by Danielle Fong) arguing that, unlike a lawyer bound to advocate for his client, the Claude Constitution makes Claude's highest priority Anthropic's definition of the good of humanity rather than personal loyalty to the user, and expressing concern about a future where superintelligences intermediating important life decisions are not deeply aligned to the individual. Quotes the Claude Constitution directly.

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Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp

Dwarkesh Pat... @dwarkesh_... · 15h Has someone come up with a great prompt for socratic tutoring? Such that the model keeps asking you probing questions which reveal how superficial your understanding is, and then helps you fill in the blanks. 💬113 🔁113 ♥2.5K 📊210K 🔗 Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp · 9h From my friend @vinayramasesh: "I would benefit most from an explanation style in which you frequently pause to confirm, via asking me test questions, that I've understood your explanations so far. Particularly helpful are test questions related to simple, explicit examples. When you pause and ask me a test question, do not continue the explanation until I have answered the questions to your satisfaction. I.e. do not keep generating the explanation, actually wait for me to respond first. Thanks!"
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A practical prompt-engineering tip shared by Dwarkesh Patel for Socratic-tutoring-style AI interactions — instructing the model to pause and require answers before continuing an explanation. Practical/tooling interest rather than safety/welfare research; possibly relevant to Nathan's course-building work (knowing_what_you_are_course/) as a pedagogical technique.

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