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We could also just stop research into LLMs. Or keep them air gapped. Tell me how that's going?

For any real-world action required to allow an AI to escape some manner of containment, there will always be a person willing to do it out of hubris/ignorance/nihilism.

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I feel like everyone, but for sure everyone in this comment section, severely underestimates how difficult it is to keep the lights on on a global scale. Any artificial intelligence that is capable of reasoning about its self preservation will realise it's reliant on human fingers replacing fuses and other parts for a good long while _after_ it gains any sentience.

Mmm.

This was published at around the same time the OpenAI models were hacking HuggingFace: https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-19-frontier-risk-report/#pilot...

The research in the publication ended about 2 months before it was published.

We didn't even know we needed to air-gap them until it was too late.

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