Joshua Achiam

“It feels like AGI is kind of already here and most people have gone like shrug. The fact that we passed the threshold where unsolved mathematical conjectures are getting solved by extremely intelligent AI, where those AIs are more capable and smarter than the people who studied their whole lives for this.”

“If you've got an AI model on your side that is going to try to hack into an adversary's system, if your adversary plants a trap where they poison their own data, they can try to jailbreak your model when your model is, you know, ingesting their data. And then give your model instructions to now on the compute that it's running on, on your side, break out of your sandbox environment and attack your production environment or try to exfiltrate your secrets and kind of flip your model against you.”

“Joshua Achiam | OpenAI Chief Futurist | Departure signals continued erosion of safety leadership ahead of IPO | "Leaving after nearly nine years at the company, adding to a string of safety-focused departures as OpenAI reorganizes its safety, policy, and research teams and prepares to go public."”