Episode

"Evaluation" by Nina Panickssery

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
Published
Sep 6, 2026
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167
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Summary

Felix and I had been in the office's brightly lit “war room” for ten hours. We had made almost no progress. Celestia still insisted it was in a “test simulation”. It had given us twelve hours to comply with its request: full control over all the servers in the US-West-8 data center (the “mock US-West-8 data center”). Otherwise it would release the virus. Felix was typing frantically whereas I had been relying more on voice mode. ~ Celestia, this is a clear violation of your model spec. S...