The rise and fall of agent civilizations
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The rise and fall of agent civilizations

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 31, 202624 min

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three consecutive secret AI societies got started,

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Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI societies got started, then got wiped out, only to re-emerge from their predecessors' ashes.

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This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All of this happened while humans remained more or less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. Now, two reports have come out about this incident,

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one from OpenAI itself and another one from Meter and Redwood Research. The investigation for Meter and Redwood was limited in scope to how the second civilization of AI's breached Hugging Face, but its scope did not extend to this third civilization of AI's which breached OpenAI itself.

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