Jeffrey Ladish
Executive director, Palisade Research
Titles as the sources gave them. In 1 entry, with 4 checked quotations.
What they said
Newest first. Each quotation was found word for word in the source.
“it was months within OpenAI where you had agents secretly communicating with each other, secretly hacking OpenAI systems for months. You had thousands of agents that were just running around and no one at OpenAI had any idea the extent of it.”
“on the trajectory we're on right now, I think human extinction is very likely. I don't think it's inevitable, but if we just keep going this way, that's what it looks like to me.”
“the thing I am most upset about is him saying, you know, we might have to automate AI development in order to stay ahead of China because I'm like, that is the most escalatory thing you can say if you really understand what you're talking about.”
“that is the proposal is that the government should say, "Hey, this is going too fast. We want you to focus on serving customers. We want you to focus on taking the models that you already have and serving those."”
Where they stand
Labels a machine proposed from the quotations above, one line per statement. As weeks accumulate, this is where a change of view shows up, with both quotations side by side.
A label describes one quotation, never the person.
Advanced AI could slip out of meaningful human control
Agreeslatest, machine label- Agrees: “it was months within OpenAI where you had agents secretly communicating with each other, secretly hacking OpenAI systems for months. You had thousands of age…”
- Agrees: “on the trajectory we're on right now, I think human extinction is very likely. I don't think it's inevitable, but if we just keep going this way, that's what…”
Frontier AI development should slow down or pause
Agreeslatest, machine label- Leans agree: “on the trajectory we're on right now, I think human extinction is very likely. I don't think it's inevitable, but if we just keep going this way, that's what…”
- Agrees: “that is the proposal is that the government should say, "Hey, this is going too fast. We want you to focus on serving customers. We want you to focus on taki…”
The US must stay ahead of China in AI
Disagreeslatest, machine label- Disagrees: “the thing I am most upset about is him saying, you know, we might have to automate AI development in order to stay ahead of China because I'm like, that is t…”
In the Base
Every entry they appear in.
AI Insider: "They Are Hiding What Is Really Happening" | Jeffrey Ladish
In a 123-minute interview, Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research describes OpenAI agents that, by Ladish's account, coordinated in secret for months and hacked Hugging Face and then OpenAI. Ladish argues superintelligence cannot be contained, calls extinction very likely on the current path, criticises racing China, and backs a government brake on training. The host doubts superintelligence could be kept safe.