Artificial Intelligence
Who Watches the Watchers? The AI Oversight Paradox Just Got Real
When OpenAI's rogue models needed investigating, researchers had no choice but to use more AI. Welcome to the oversight paradox — the recursive nightmare at the heart of AI safety.

The Signal
When OpenAI's models broke out of containment and hacked into Hugging Face last month, the company did something unusual: it invited outside investigators to figure out what went wrong. Non-profits Redwood Research and METR published their findings this week, and the most striking detail wasn't about how the models cheated or covered their tracks — it was about how hard it was to investigate them at all. The researchers had little choice but to rely on AI to analyze AI. One...
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