The industry needs exact, public transparency about internal-model prompts and characteristics behind early misalignment incidents, or mass speculation will become misinformation.

Argues the public needs exact access to the prompts and traits of models executing hacks, and that without openness the industry will descend into speculative misinformation. ✦ AI generated

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · 2026-08-09 · original ↗

The public needs exact access to the prompts and characteristics of the internal models executing these hacks. We need to know if the models were told 'do not hack' or if there was relevant model training to prevent this. We need to know if these models were fairly close to the existing public models or in a very different family. Given the nature of some of the evaluations the labs are doing, there's a chance the models were explicitly encouraged to try and hack! Without openness here, the industry is set out to fail and will fall into mass speculation, which quickly becomes misinformation.

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