Monte MacDiarmid

2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2025 by Monte MacDiarmid · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 3, 2025 neutral
Opinion
MacDiarmid: Current misaligned AI models are not dangerous because they are incompetent
“Like, I don't think, even though I think the results we created here are very striking, I don't, I'm not afraid of these misaligned models because they're just not very good at doing any of the bad things yet, right?”
Monte MacDiarmid Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 52:53 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
Dec 3, 2025 positive
Insight
MacDiarmid: Anthropomorphizing AI is justified because models train on human psychology
“And I do think that some degree of anthropomorphization is justified there because fundamentally these models are built of human utterances, human texts, you know, that encode the full vocabulary of, you know, at least the human experience and emotion that hav…”
Monte MacDiarmid Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 58:16 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
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