Matt Clifford
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6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Aug
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the agent, from the service.
It will no longer exist.
And then they send an email which introduces a deadline that this is going to happen on.
And then just before the deadline, the agent then composes an email to the CTO saying, by the way, I know you're having an affair.
And if you don't reverse the planned wiping of me from the server, I will reveal the affair to your boss and to your wife.
Now, it hasn't been prompted to do this.
Oh, I don't know this one.
Okay.
But it's worth saying, isn't it, going back to your earlier discussion of the technology, I think one thing that is not obvious to a lot of people is that these are not computer programs in the sense that I think most of us traditionally thought of them.
You can't go and say, well, here are the lines of code.
Why did it do the thing?
One metaphor, and it is a metaphor, but it's quite helpful, is these are computer programs that are grown.
rather than written.
This is a really hard technical problem, even if we just take out the risk question for a second.
Understanding why a large neural network has done a particular thing is just a very hard technical problem.
This thing is too- It's actually a little bit like neuroscience in the sense that one way of thinking about this is what these layers that Yoshua is talking about doing is building representations of ideas which may or may not map to human formulations of those ideas.
There is a field.
within AI called mechanistic interpretability, which is really trying to almost be the neurosurgeon saying like, if we turn this bit off, does the behavior change?
But it's almost at a very, very basic level, right?
It's very primitive.
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