Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware of it. I’m aware that multiple AIs are now breaking out of their testing environments and autonomously hacking into servers to steal data—i.e., exactly the sort of thing that the rationalists were ridiculed for predicting back in the day. I hope the world takes the warning more seriously than it’s taken many similar warnings over the past few years. I’ve been more open about my life than 99.99% of humanity, so regular Shtetl-Optimized readers will already know some parts of the story. Why don’t I respond directly to what’s happening—in math, in quantum computing, in AI?