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Zac Hill @zdch

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Zac Hill [verified] @zdch · 2h

I am obviously by no means a technically-adept researcher, but the analogy that keeps coming to mind for me is how the Chernobyl meltdown was caused by a testing environment whose job was to just go and throw out the conditions that could prevent disaster, until an unintentional second-order design flaw sabotaged the remaining capabilities present within the lattice of preventative action.

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Séb Krier [verified] @sebkrier · 18h

Really great that we have the OpenAI and METR reports out now. Still digesting them. I'm personally much more interested in the possible *causes* of the behaviours as opposed to the specific incidents/behaviours themselves; with... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Zac Hill's tweet comparing the (OpenAI/METR-reported) agent incidents to the Chernobyl meltdown as a testing environment that stripped out safeguards, quoting Seb Krier on the OpenAI and METR reports being out and his interest in causes over specific incidents.

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