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A malicious AI company could hypothetically insert training data that makes its model obey that company and no one else.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“if sort of society as a whole can see the whole time what's going on with ai um how smart they are who they're aligned to right like if let's say like an icu that was evil was trying to like”
“backdoor their model and put in training data that says,”
“hey, obey me and don't obey anyone else.”Play from 1:07:14Report a misattribution
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