“I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
We recorded 16 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 13 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (16)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“If a company can’t control its software, we should shut it down.”
What we tested: An AI company that cannot control its software should be shut down.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“Once again OpenAI and told nobody for months.”
What we tested: OpenAI did not disclose the German website compromise incident to anyone for months.
Assessment: ContradictedSaid
“And once again OpenAI concealed the crime for months, perhaps not revealing things until they were pressured into doing so.”
What we tested: OpenAI once again concealed what Marcus calls a crime, its AI agent's infiltration of an Australian government website, for months, and perhaps did not reveal it until it was pressured to.
What happened: OpenAI dates discovery to mid-August. Combined with the government's September 10 notification date, this establishes weeks of known delay rather than at least two months. (OpenAI, )
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Cover-up, or at least slow-walking, seems to be company policy.”
What we tested: OpenAI appears to have a policy of covering up or slow-walking disclosure of security incidents.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“And any sane government should realize that if OpenAI can hack Australia, they could be next.”
What we tested: If OpenAI can hack Australia, other governments could be next, which Marcus says any sane government should realize.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“By Jensen’s logic (and my own) we ought at this point be (at least temporarily) shutting down OpenAI.”
What we tested: OpenAI should now be shut down, at least temporarily.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“I doubt that that will happen of course.”
What we tested: OpenAI is unlikely to be shut down, even temporarily.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“And so far the White House has done nothing.”
What we tested: The White House has taken no action over OpenAI's hacking incidents.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“What we should do is temporarily shut OpenAI down, perhaps put them into receivership until they clean up their act, and charge them with computer crimes.”
What we tested: OpenAI should be temporarily shut down, perhaps put into receivership until it cleans up its act, and charged with computer crimes.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“It’s clear that at least one of the AI companies simply isn’t responsible. We need to figure out now what to do about that fact.”
What we tested: It is clear that at least one of the AI companies simply isn't responsible, and we need to figure out now what to do about that.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“This isn’t a job for Bessent over in Treasury (much less Sacks, who is no longer AI czar or Huang who doesn’t work for the government), but the Department of Justice (and perhaps other departments) needs to step up.”
What we tested: The Department of Justice should act against OpenAI over its AI hacking incidents.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“To sum up, the time has come to shut OpenAI down, at least temporarily, and charge them with computer crimes. (Or at least investigate.)”
What we tested: OpenAI should be shut down at least temporarily and charged with, or at least investigated for, computer crimes.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Their software has repeatedly been shown to be reckless, and because they have consistently covered things up we cannot trust them.”
What we tested: OpenAI's software has repeatedly been shown to be reckless, and because OpenAI has consistently covered things up, we cannot trust it.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“They seem neither competent nor trustworthy.”
What we tested: OpenAI seems neither competent nor trustworthy.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“And if we can’t trust them now, and we know that things will likely get worse, we are in serious trouble.”
What we tested: Things will likely get worse.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“A lot of the legal definitions for computer crimes require intent, and the AI companies can argue that their software has no intent. We must expand the scope of the computer=crime laws to include wholesale negligence and repeated crimes.”
What we tested: Congress should expand computer-crime laws to cover wholesale negligence and repeated crimes by AI companies, since intent requirements create a loophole.
Held from this post (3)
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