AI Misalignment, Hacking Medicare, and Solving 500-Year-Old Mysteries
Day two of the new Chaos Agents.
An OpenAI agent was given a research task—and ended up accessing an Australian government system. We dig into why, and Becca explains one of the biggest problems in AI safety: misalignment, or what happens when an AI does what you told it to do, but not what you actually meant.
Then we look at the much more optimistic side of that same capability. AI agents are getting surprisingly good at historical research—cracking old codes, finding connections between centuries-old documents, and potentially making discoveries humans have missed.
We also get into a…
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