OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post) — 80,000 Hours Podcast

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This is an (unpaid) cross-post of a video from the podcast 'AI Explained', which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in.

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"This video is hard to summarise. A cracked cipher, an OpenAI security warning, Gemini 4 Argon, RSI paper (co-authored by a who’s who of AI), Lab White House commitments, new hacks emerging, ‘deep personas’, biology Kasparov competitions, and so much more, ending with an epic Opus outro."

Introduction (00:01:40)
Wrong about Opus 5.5? Deciphering 16th Century Text (00:03:12)
Why the models keep breaking out (00:06:41)
What the models aren’t telling us (00:13:20)
Gemini 4 and the race to release (00:17:16)
What happens when AI improves AI? (00:20:59)
Biology, consciousness, and what we still don’t understand (00:30:11)

Thanks to Philip for permitting the cross-post.