Why does it matter?
More autonomous AI would make control and oversight problems harder to catch before deployment.
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Due to the immense public pressure as well as their own fears of misalignment, the Oversight Committee overseeing OpenBrain votes 6–4 to slow down and reassess. The accelerationist faction is still strong, and OpenBrain doesn’t immediately shut down Agent-4. But they do lock the shared memory bank.
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