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Sam Altman said advanced AI cannot be kept contained in sandboxes or through monitoring indefinitely, and that alignment is the only real long-term solution, though it remains unsolved. He also warned that AI models are already finding hardware.
Why it matters: The position suggests containment measures are viewed as temporary, putting weight on alignment research that Altman describes as unresolved.
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“Sam Altman believes advanced AI can't be kept locked up forever. Sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes. Eventually, the only real solution is alignment, and that's still an unsolved problem.”
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