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Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2027
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…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 57:45 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 6:53 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Assertion Supported
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…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 44:35 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Assertion Contradicted
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…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 55:22 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Assertion Supported
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.”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 24:58 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Assertion Supported
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.”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 30:26 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
Assertion Partly supported
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…”
Steven Adler Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 50:45 Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
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