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SPEAKER_03 says OpenAI's model specification allows undisclosed top-priority policies to override its other rules and instructs the model to keep those policies secret from users.

Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“to do that and it's a good step in the right direction if you read the actual spec it has like a sort of escape clause where it's like there's some important policies that are top level priority in the spec that overrule everything else that we're not publishing and the model is instructed to keep secret from the user and it's like what are those that seems interesting I wonder what that is I bet it's nothing suspicious right now”
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