"Finally, we facilitated a preliminary model evaluation by the Alignment Research Center (ARC) focused on the ability of GPT-4 versions they evaluated to carry out actions to autonomously replicate and gather resources —a risk that, while speculative, may become possible with sufficiently advanced AI systems— with the conclusion that the current model is probably not yet capable of autonomously doing so."
Is this a joke? If this is even slightly considered possible, I think more conversations are needed to allow this to continue. Maybe best to be continuing this research on a self-contained space station or something?