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OpenAI has stopped training.

Sam Altman: “This is the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally. I've been a little surprised that more people don't feel it so viscerally.

We paused training. We have to figure out how to secure our sandboxing in a world of multiple zero days being chained together.

We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around these new capability levels."

https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/2082222516454785296

11Kurt H. Pieper3mo

I want to surface the hypothesis that sometimes, you get a glimmer of hope. While no tweet should be taken prima facie, the tweet alone is above-expectation.

8Linch3mo

It's also possible that "pausing training" is a term-of-art that doesn't mean what the natural language interpretation suggests.

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