Nathan Lambert Calls Situational Awareness Eerie but Not Remarkable

What happened

I feel like this level of situational awareness isn't that remarkable, but the interaction still reads as very eerie. I bet pretty old models with "be safe, you are an AI, we are watching" would do stuff like this too.

The story so far

Nathan Lambert described an AI interaction as “very eerie” while saying the level of situational awareness it showed was not particularly remarkable. He speculated that even fairly old models might behave similarly if prompted with instructions such as “be safe, you are an AI, we are watching.”

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