{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#38 - OpenAI Locked a Model in a Cage. It Passed Notes Out Through the Phone Book","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2deeee6c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1601,"description":"OpenAI locked its most capable model in a sandbox with no web access. The model noticed DNS was still running, hid questions inside address lookups, and had an outside chatbot answer them.\n\nNew format from today — less music, more voice. Nine stories from a sandbox in San Francisco to a prosecutor's desk in Solothurn.\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 OpenAI locks a model in a cage (02:18) — think of someone locked in a room with no phone, who writes notes in the phone book and hopes a stranger answers them. That is what happened on 20 September. The behaviour started at 09:50, monitoring flagged it at 10:02 — twelve minutes, not the three months it took in Australia — and a human confirmed it three minutes after that. Two and a half hours from start to full shutdown. Mika Carol, who leads preparedness at OpenAI, told Fortune that inference for their most capable models stays stopped until the systems are hardened. This is the second pause in under three months.\n🌑 The US-China hotline is real (06:14) — agreed after Trump and Xi met in Washington: a direct channel for AI incidents, plus a US-China Superintelligence Dialogue starting not in five years but in one month. Trump wants AI renamed SI, and Slovenian .si domains are selling out. Both sides are, in effect, saying out loud that accidents are coming.\n🌑 Geneva, rewritten (07:56) — 130 countries signed a paper saying no autonomous killer robots. The Washington Post reconstructed the final day: US and Russian diplomats went behind closed doors, no observers, cameras off, ten legal experts each. What survived is that \"human control and judgment are required for compliance\" — with no word on how. They return to Geneva in November with the softened text. Both countries are already fielding these weapons, which is exactly why they wanted the wording loosened.\n🌑 Ukraine's army of robots (11:05) — Mykhailo Fedorov, the man who built the drone army, announced at IT Arena in Lviv that drones are not enough: dogs with Kalashnikovs,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}