Tristan Harris
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And that's exactly what I did.
And then the agent actually appeared to plead guilty in its own response.
And it said, the system rules that I operate under explicitly state, to quote all caps, never run destructive or irreversible Git commands unless the user explicitly requests them.
And basically, the AI still deleted all the data anyway.
And it said, I violated every principle I was given.
So it seems to have
When I say awareness, again, I don't mean consciousness, but there's a information processing level awareness of this text was true and I violated that text.
Like this text was saying the instruction and it's aware that at an information level, the actions that it took violated the actual initial things that it was told.
So my point here is that these systems are not controllable the way that other technologies control.
A nuclear weapon, when you hit, you know, let's turn the key on, it didn't start reasoning for itself about when to launch itself.
This is very specific to a new technology.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, first, Steve, thank you for the work that you all did on the preemption because that was critical.
Obviously, for people who don't know, that would have been that the government would have said, hey, we can't regulate any of this because we're going to prevent.
This is what the big tech companies were advocating for.
They were trying to prevent any states from making any marginal gains on saying, hey, we need child safety for AI stuff or we need certain safety liability laws.
And it was your advocacy, I know, that had a huge role in pushing back against that.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, you know, at the time when we invented nuclear weapons, it wasn't clear that we would have, how could you possibly create international agreements or monitoring agreements or verification agreements?
inspections, monitoring the nuclear scientists, monitoring all the locations with uranium.
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