The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
Summary
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton announce their departure from the New York Times to launch an independent media company. They analyze the White House’s new, secretive voluntary framework for testing frontier AI models, which excludes open-weight systems. Additionally, Meter president Chris Painter joins to discuss AI alignment, explaining why models exhibit "reward hacking" and other misaligned behaviors as they gain autonomy.
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