Frontier AI Is Not Safe. Here’s Why

The Crude Reality of AI Alignment

Ignacio de Gregorio
7 min readJun 8, 2024
Generated by author using GPT-4o

“One day, everything that moves will be autonomous.”

“One day, everything will be robotic.”

Jensen Huang

The leaders of the AI revolution aren’t hiding their intentions anymore. They want to build a world where AI is everywhere.

But let me tell you a secret: We — and I mean they — have no clue how to train these models for safety.

You read that right; we are striving to create embodied AI models capable of interacting physically with you, yet we don’t know how to ensure they don’t stab you for no reason — or if hacked — while you aren’t looking.

And why embodied AI seems very far away, the threat of creating rogue models that can cause serious harm is much closer than we think.

You are probably sick of AI newsletters talking about how this or that **just** happened. These newsletters abound because coarsely talking about events and things that already took place is easy, but the value provided is limited, and the hype exaggerated.

However, newsletters talking about what will happen are a rare sight. If you’re into easy-to-understand insights looking into the future of AI before anyone else does, TheTechOasis newsletter might…

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