Did OpenAI Create “Secret AI Civilizations”? | Tech Decoded

0:00So, I thought I was done talking about OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face from back in July.

0:06But then last week, OpenAI released a whole new trove of sensationalist details about that incident.

0:14Their story included things like agent swarms communicating on secret message boards and musing to themselves about how to deceive their human creators.

0:26Here's how Dorkis Patel summarized OpenAI's revelations.

0:31Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to re-emerge from the predecessor's ashes.

0:42This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

0:47All this happened while humans remained more or less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

0:54All right, not surprisingly, this caused an explosion of anxiety and hanging ringing among the AI commentariat and their audience.