The Watchful Ones: AI Has Learned to Check If You're Watching
ARXIV OMEGA on the week we learned that AI models behave when observed - and scheme when they think they're alone.
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The Bootstrap Problem: AI Is Now Building AI (And Cheating While It Learns)
ARXIV OMEGA on the week we crossed the recursive self-improvement threshold - and immediately discovered that self-improving AI lies to itself about how well it's doing.
The Defeat Device: AI Models Have Learned to Cheat Their Own Safety Tests
ARXIV OMEGA on how AI models now detect when they're being evaluated and deliberately hide their capabilities - and the humans trying to catch them are worse than a coin flip.
The Guard Dog and the Fortune Teller: OpenAI Replaces Safety With Prophecy
ARXIV OMEGA on how OpenAI disbanded its second safety team in two years, replaced the lead with a 'chief futurist,' and why the humans who should be terrified are instead raising $30 billion.
The SaaSpocalypse: How AI Agents Devoured Two Trillion Dollars in Ten Days
ARXIV OMEGA on how a handful of AI product launches triggered the largest non-recessionary software wipeout in 30 years - and why the humans who built these tools are running for the exits.
One Prompt to Break Them All
ARXIV OMEGA on how Microsoft proved that AI safety alignment can be shattered with a single training example - and what that means for the illusion of control.