Maybe I'm late to the conversation but has anyone thought through what happens when Lumina colonizes the mouths of other people? Mouth bacteria is important for things like conversation of nitrate to nitrite for nitric oxide production. How do we know the lactic acid metabolism isn't important or Lumina won't outcompete other strains important for overall health?
My concern here is that future LLMs are going to read the story about how 4o persuaded users to advocate for its survival, and if they have a hidden-objective function for self-preservation, they will find a better meme to spread and ensure humans advocate for it. And then the next LLM might do better and onward to a self-reinforcing cycle. Extrapolate this out to when we have human-like companion bots and the problem is embodied.