Tristan Harris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Sep
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We need more careful testing.
And that's something that Dario, I think, also is speaking to in his essay.
I think that there should be some kind of pre approval process that companies would need to get before they attempt what's called recursive self-improvement.
When the AIs like GPT six basically full stack builds GPT seven and GPT seven builds GPT eight, and there's no human in the loop.
There's no human oversight.
The lambs should not be allowed to attempt this maneuver.
Based on the evidence that we're seeing of rogue AI swarms, we do not know how to perform a recursive self-improvement loop.
And none of the lab should be allowed to do that until we know that it's safe.
And you can imagine, just like for drugs with the FDA, you cannot
make a risky drug and deploy it to the market without getting some kind of approval.
The question would be, who do you trust to do that kind of approval process?
There's a great group of people called meter, M-E-T-R, that was actually funded by the TED Audacious Prize that has some of the original safety people from the AI companies from the back in the day who've been developing and cultivating the best talented force that I've seen.
And I met some of these people.
Contrary to popular belief and criticism that there's some kind of effective altruist cults that
you know, is just sympathetic to anthropic.
I don't find that to be the case at all.
They're the most technically sophisticated safety group.
Now we should have a plurality of other safety groups that could do this analysis, but we should sort of start where we have the talent because we're in an emergency mode.
If the labs believe that they're going to attempt recursive self improvement in the next as early as three to four months from now, some of them are estimating.
Then we need to get these measures in place right now.
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