Daniel Kokotajlo

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"Hugging Face, by the way, this is another AI company. Part of their deal is open-weights AIs — basically AIs that instead of having to interact with their data center, you can just download and have on your own computer."

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"There's like you know GPT-3 and GPT-4 and GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 and GPT-5.5 and 5.6, right? Sometimes they're just the same previous model but with extra training."

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"There's some people in SF that are doing this experiment where they have a store that's run by Claude, an AI, just to see if it can run a store by itself. It's hired some human employees and bought some merchandise and stock. Basically an AI is being the manager of this real world store. And I don't think it's going very well."

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"The CASEY Center for AI Standards and Innovation is the only institution in government that I know of that has the deep AI expertise to do this sort of thing on short notice, but I hope that they build more expertise fast."

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"OpenAI is not going to like this. This would probably be bad for the valuations. I don't think it would kill them completely, but it means that it would commoditize more."

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"You heard about Elon's Grok — for a while it was looking up on the internet Elon's opinions about things before answering. People were asking Grok questions, and Grok is supposed to be the truthful AI, but people looked at its activity and noticed that when you asked it a politically loaded question, it would do a Google search for what has Elon said on this topic."

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"There was another thing with Gemini. So I think the Grok thing was probably an accident. There's a similar case at Google a few years ago where this image generator kept making all these racially diverse Nazis."