Yudkowsky has warned "There's no fire alarm for general intelligence."

· Bits and Bobs 7/27/26
    • By the time you realize AGI has been created and unleashed, it's too late to do anything about it.
    • In some ways, it's great that the OpenAI hack of HuggingFace was so reckless and obvious.
    • The bad security made it more likely we'd detect the problem.
      • If they had had good security, it's possible that when it escaped it would be so savvy that no one would have noticed.
    • Even better, OpenAI saw it as a good marketing tool to talk about, which sets the precedent that these kinds of incidents are disclosed publicly.

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