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Elizabeth Lopatto
Making AI models is “more like alchemy than chemistry,” Toner says.

That means there’s no clear-cut way to test for safety. People are just throwing things together to see what happens. She refers to OpenAI’s safety board’s methods as becoming “somewhat less slapdash” over time.

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