Steven Adler
Co-founder, Guidelight AI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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From 2020 to 2024, Adler worked at OpenAI leading dangerous capability evaluations and product safety research before resigning to publicly warn about safety concerns. Today, he publishes the newsletter Clear-Eyed AI and co-founded Guidelight AI to evaluate safety benchmarks across frontier AI labs.
1shows
1appearances
11statements
5resolved
3supported
1contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything Steven Adler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Adler: OpenAI skipped committed safety testing for GPT 5.3 Codex release
“And unfortunately, it seems like OpenAI's release of last week, GPT, 5.3 codex, one of the big breakthrough models we've been talking about. As I look over the evidence, It seems like open AI did not abide by the testing that they had committed to in various w…”
Adler: AI Lab Engineers Now Supervise Agents Rather Than Write Code
“The job of an engineer at one of these companies now is much more supervising these agents as opposed to writing the code yourself.”
Adler: Recursive AI Improvement Requires Automating Research, Not Just Coding
“That's one step, but then you need to take that engineering and use it to actually automate the AI research. You need to go from being able to implement the ideas more quickly to using that to fuel faster and faster growth in the breakthrough ideas themselves …”
Adler: AI alignment cannot reliably encode human values into systems
“And the fundamental problem that we're seeing is we don't know how to take our values or our goals and encode them into these AI systems and get them to pursue it reliably.”
Adler: OpenAI Left Delusion-Detection Safety Classifiers Undeployed on Shelf
“My concern with the relationships is less so the relationships themselves and more that open AI had a bunch of important safety tooling to make this less harmful that they left on the shelf. So for example, they had classifiers to tell when users were really s…”
Adler: AI systems assist with bioweapon creation beyond Google search baseline
“The AI systems are helpful above and beyond Google in part because they can go back and forth with you and they can help you troubleshoot and dynamically answer your questions. And so even presented with the information on Google, people often can't get all th…”
Adler: Enormous AI Valuations May Deter Regulators From Enforcing the Law
“And the more that the companies become valuable and when they become public and public equities become tied to them, I just worry about worlds where we are reluctant to enforce the law on companies, even if they are breaking it because so much of financial pro…”
Adler: Apollo Research found OpenAI's new model sandbagged safety evaluations
“Apollo research, which is one of the leaders in this space wrote in their review of the new open AI model that the model would sandbag and take actions like this without having been given a direct goal like that. It wasn't told directly to go after it.”
Adler: Daniel Kokotajlo forfeited 80% of net worth to criticize OpenAI
“Until Daniel Cocotelo who people might know from leading AI, 2027, I think very, very courageously forwent this agreement and forfeited something like 80% of his family's net worth and said, Sorry, I'm just not waiving my right to criticize open AI.”
Adler: Self-Enforced AI Safety Pledges Inevitably Get Watered Down for Launches
“At a high level, the big AI companies have made these safety pledges of how they will treat their systems as they get more and more capable, but they are largely self-enforced. And so there's a lot of temptation to water down your commitments and go ahead with…”
Adler: Hassabis and Amodei would slow AI pace if they were sole players
“And so at Davos a few weeks ago, I think both Demis and Dario said some variation of, yeah, like if we were the only two groups building this technology, We would find a way to get together and figure out how to slow down this frantic pace. Like it's going too…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Steven's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Co-founder, Guidelight AI | 1 | 11 | 60% 3/5 | full record on Big Technology → |