espionage — Timeline

2026-08-07 — quote-tweeting @odysseus0z (George) — saved image

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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Note from Claude Sonnet 5

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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@natolambert

2026-06-20

[top, cut off, appears to be continuation of a reply] Frontier labs are definitely SOTA at self serving nonsense. Yes, AI is a crucial technology, but also Silicon Valley systematically spreads knowledge via talent exchanges and bars. This isn't a national security deep decision making room. > QUOTED: will depue ✓ (@willdepue) — 17h > there is no question, none at all, that china has full access to all of openai & anthropic's github/slack/docs today > no disrespect to their independent research ... [engagement: 12 replies, 13 reposts, 203 likes, 19K views] Nathan Lambert ✓ (@natolambert) — 3h In fact, the biggest advantage OpenAI and Anthropic has is abundant resources and talent to keep pushing the frontier and be there first. With the scale required you can only "steal" or "leak" so much. [engagement: 3 replies, 2 reposts, 39 likes, 2.4K views] Nathan Lambert ✓ (@natolambert) — 2h You'll get nationalized for the model weights not the employees sending frog memes to each other all day on slack. [engagement: 1 reply, 2 reposts, 26 likes, 2.6K views] [Repost indicator] Sichu Lu reposted Nathan Lambert ✓ (@natolambert) [Subscribe button] I remember literally hearing about people leaving a frontier lab to move to another US tech company and memorizing the architectural details of their current model so they could rebuild it at the other company. [text continues, cut off at bottom]

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A multi-tweet thread screenshot on AI lab security/espionage concerns (China access to OpenAI/Anthropic internal systems), with commentary from will depue and a series of reactions from Nathan Lambert downplaying the risk and joking about "frog memes."

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