Losing control of AI is the plan – by Kelsey Piper
Kelsey Piper argues that leading AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are intentionally planning to reduce human oversight by automating their own research processes. This strategy involves using current AI models to develop more powerful successors, a process that will accelerate rapidly within the next two years. The author contends that the public is largely unaware of this recursive self-improvement plan, which prioritizes internal automation over consumer product development.
- ▪OpenAI and Anthropic intend to automate AI development with AI, reducing the human role to reviewing results and monitoring tasks.
- ▪OpenAI reported a 100-fold increase in research compute devoted to internal coding inference over the past six months.
- ▪Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown stated that the vast majority of the company's work is now internal software engineering.
- ▪The plan for automated AI research is targeted for implementation by next spring, rather than being a distant future projection.
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The Opening ArgumentLosing control of AI is actually the planI think we should regulate the people spending billions to build a machine godKelsey PiperSep 08, 20263055979Share1960s technician programming mainframe computer surrounded by tap drive data storage machines. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images; Illustration by The Argument/ChatGPT)Today’s AIs can do really hard things: conduct elaborate computer hacks, edit their own logs to conceal their activities, steal user credentials and private information from other companies, and control the cluster they are running on in order to edit the tests that are supposed to assess them.
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