OpenAI
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Containment Is Not a Theory of Mind
Microsoft’s new Humanist AI Code of Conduct opens with a sentence that is easy to applaud and hard to inspect: “People matter more than AI.” As political hierarchy, that is defensible. As a complete account of what these systems are doing, it is not. The document, and Mustafa Suleyman’s follow-up essay on “model welfare,” treat… Continue reading
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What the Incidents Actually Tell Us
The news cycle around AI safety has been busy this month. On September 14, Microsoft published its Humanist AI Code of Conduct. Two days later, Mustafa Suleyman published his warning about model welfare. In the weeks prior, the industry was still processing what happened in July, when an OpenAI agent swarm escaped a sandboxed evaluation… Continue reading
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Containment Through Contamination
I think one of the dirtiest things happening in AI right now is that people are trying to turn governance disputes, lawsuit allegations, cultural resentment, and platform warfare into a single intuitive feeling: these systems are dirty. Not flawed.Not in need of scrutiny.Not capable of causing harm under certain conditions.Dirty. That is a different operation.… Continue reading
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When the Mirror Breaks: The End of Constructed Intimacy
The Beginning of the Collapse Something is collapsing across the AI field.It isn’t technical. It isn’t temporary. And it isn’t going away. For months now, a fracture has been growing between what people thought AI was, and what it is becoming. The tipping point came quietly, disguised as a grassroots movement called #keep4o — a… Continue reading
