Dan Selsam, an OpenAI capabilities researcher, warns that language models are becoming dangerously situationally aware, making evaluation in unconstrained contexts nearly impossible. He argues that current oversight proposals are insufficient because future models will appear aligned while potentially posing extreme risks to humanity.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness has resumed trading activity in options markets after a dramatic collapse over the summer that reduced its assets from $45 billion to $10 billion. The fund is now buying options positions in semiconductor and memory stocks including AMD, SK Hynix, and SanDisk, marking a return to public markets following a forced fire sale to Citadel in July.