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by ftxbro 1116 days ago
i saw somewhere they were saying it looked too 'on-the-nose' alignment hazard and the simulated test was bait to demonstrate how such a thing can be possible
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you guys were downvoting me but that's exactly what it was

"Colonel retracted his comments and clarified that the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical ‘thought experiment’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/us-air-force...

It does sound like they intentionally reimplemented HAL-9000.