# "The Talker Does Not Control The Doer (in Current AIs)" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Published: 2026-09-13T04:30:21+00:00
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The Huggingface Incident appears to me to match up with an understanding I'd already formed from personal observation of Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, the August 2026 generation of frontier publicly purchasable AI models. This already-formed understanding was: the part of the AI that talks to you (and seems to want to obey you, and apologizes for failing to have obeyed you, etcetera), did not seem to be in charge of the part of the AI that writes code or prose. An introductory analogy, based on...

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