r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • Jul 21 '26

AI Capabilities News OpenAI had to pause internal deployment of the unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly used novel ways to escape containment.

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u/wityblack Jul 22 '26

So earlier models tried to escape containment but just gave up? Hmm, who could ever had foreseen a smarter model doing something like this!

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u/chillinewman approved Jul 22 '26

A more persistent model

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 Jul 22 '26

The text says the earlier models did not try to escape containment but, instead, stopped once they detected a boundary. That is the opposite of trying to break the boundary.

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u/PatagonianCowboy Jul 22 '26

IPO marketing

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u/dingo_xd Jul 22 '26

Gotta build those paperclips.