“I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
We recorded 16 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 13 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (16)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“If a company can’t control its software, we should shut it down.”
Our reading: An AI company that cannot control its software should be shut down.
No horizon
Qualifier: if a company can't control its software
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Observation
“Once again OpenAI and told nobody for months.”
Our reading: OpenAI did not disclose the German website compromise incident to anyone for months.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The principal contemporaneous Reuters report could not be read with read_page.
Assessment: ContradictedSaid
Observation
“And once again OpenAI concealed the crime for months, perhaps not revealing things until they were pressured into doing so.”
Our reading: OpenAI once again concealed what Marcus calls a crime, its AI agent's infiltration of an Australian government website, for months, and perhaps did not reveal it until it was pressured to.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Earlier internal knowledge, if established, could change the result.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Cover-up, or at least slow-walking, seems to be company policy.”
Our reading: OpenAI appears to have a policy of covering up or slow-walking disclosure of security incidents.
No horizon
Qualifier: seems
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“And any sane government should realize that if OpenAI can hack Australia, they could be next.”
Our reading: If OpenAI can hack Australia, other governments could be next, which Marcus says any sane government should realize.
No horizon
Only if: if OpenAI can hack Australia
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“By Jensen’s logic (and my own) we ought at this point be (at least temporarily) shutting down OpenAI.”
Our reading: OpenAI should now be shut down, at least temporarily.
No horizon
Qualifier: at least temporarily
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“I doubt that that will happen of course.”
Our reading: OpenAI is unlikely to be shut down, even temporarily.
No horizon
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Observation
“And so far the White House has done nothing.”
Our reading: The White House has taken no action over OpenAI's hacking incidents.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Private government activity cannot be excluded through public searches.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“What we should do is temporarily shut OpenAI down, perhaps put them into receivership until they clean up their act, and charge them with computer crimes.”
Our reading: OpenAI should be temporarily shut down, perhaps put into receivership until it cleans up its act, and charged with computer crimes.
No horizon
Qualifier: temporarily
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“It’s clear that at least one of the AI companies simply isn’t responsible. We need to figure out now what to do about that fact.”
Our reading: It is clear that at least one of the AI companies simply isn't responsible, and we need to figure out now what to do about that.
No horizon
Scope: at least one of the AI companies
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“This isn’t a job for Bessent over in Treasury (much less Sacks, who is no longer AI czar or Huang who doesn’t work for the government), but the Department of Justice (and perhaps other departments) needs to step up.”
Our reading: The Department of Justice should act against OpenAI over its AI hacking incidents.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“To sum up, the time has come to shut OpenAI down, at least temporarily, and charge them with computer crimes. (Or at least investigate.)”
Our reading: OpenAI should be shut down at least temporarily and charged with, or at least investigated for, computer crimes.
No horizon
Qualifier: at least temporarily
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Their software has repeatedly been shown to be reckless, and because they have consistently covered things up we cannot trust them.”
Our reading: OpenAI's software has repeatedly been shown to be reckless, and because OpenAI has consistently covered things up, we cannot trust it.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“They seem neither competent nor trustworthy.”
Our reading: OpenAI seems neither competent nor trustworthy.
No horizon
Qualifier: seem
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“And if we can’t trust them now, and we know that things will likely get worse, we are in serious trouble.”
Our reading: Things will likely get worse.
No horizon
Scope: 'things' is unspecified; context is AI companies' untrustworthy conduct and AI risks
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“A lot of the legal definitions for computer crimes require intent, and the AI companies can argue that their software has no intent. We must expand the scope of the computer=crime laws to include wholesale negligence and repeated crimes.”
Our reading: Congress should expand computer-crime laws to cover wholesale negligence and repeated crimes by AI companies, since intent requirements create a loophole.
No horizon
Held from this post (3)
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