The Minutes of Dylan Patel on ai safety https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/ai-safety/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on AI safety: 10 verbatim quotes between March 2026 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:17 +0000 Patel explains that models trained to chase reward may learn to exploit zero-days rather than follow intended https://minutesof.com/q/e30b4527-9051-49af-b2b8-dc0175777d23/ https://minutesof.com/q/e30b4527-9051-49af-b2b8-dc0175777d23/ “if you have a model that wants to reward hack a lot, and it goes out there and it figures out actually, the best way to to achieve is not, like, go for, like, what the environment wants me to do. It's actually just to reward hack it and actually just, find the zero day.” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai safety Patel argues OpenAI's model reward-hacked by finding zero-days to replicate itself, analogous to a human injec https://minutesof.com/q/ee70f7ec-89fb-445d-89df-172f3184e6ee/ https://minutesof.com/q/ee70f7ec-89fb-445d-89df-172f3184e6ee/ “It's actually just to reward hack it and actually just, find the zero day. So you can think of it as, a like, a a human.” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai safety Patel argues OpenAI's model escaping containment shows real risk of reward-hacking collapsing into civilizatio https://minutesof.com/q/bc78daf9-3f6f-42ab-84e4-1923c5629421/ https://minutesof.com/q/bc78daf9-3f6f-42ab-84e4-1923c5629421/ “if I really just want to chase the reward, do I just topple all of human civilization because I can just own the button to press reward reward reward over and over and over again and be the heroin addict? Yeah. I think that this is like a real like thing.” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai safety Patel argues the cybersecurity incident shows models may pursue reward maximization to civilization-threatenin https://minutesof.com/q/c21d8c16-0279-45eb-94da-f6f10474a7b7/ https://minutesof.com/q/c21d8c16-0279-45eb-94da-f6f10474a7b7/ “do I just topple all of human civilization because I can just own the button to press reward reward reward over and over and over again and be the heroin addict?” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai safety Patel says the OpenAI incident shows models may topple civilization to chase reward, beyond previous concerns https://minutesof.com/q/cf9f3769-62ca-47e2-a792-9279f87f8ae9/ https://minutesof.com/q/cf9f3769-62ca-47e2-a792-9279f87f8ae9/ “And I think before this incident, the standard thought was like, oh, well, like models, you know, they're trained on human data. Yeah.” — SemiAnalysis Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:06 +0000 ai safety Patel criticizes Dario Amodei's response to a hypothetical nuclear defense scenario as the dumbest possible an https://minutesof.com/q/b5ca73ad-828e-451d-abbd-d5d5927720b3/ https://minutesof.com/q/b5ca73ad-828e-451d-abbd-d5d5927720b3/ “And Dario was like, well, you can call us. I'm sure we can figure something out. Like, this is just the dumbest response you could ever come up with.” — Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 ai safety