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Published · transcript-backedBeth Barnes: belief
4 May 2026 Machine Learning Street Talk The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]
“Like, these 2 things can coexist, and I think people often sort of you know, positions are surprisingly correlated on some axis of, like, how, you know, how soon you think AIs or how good you think AIs or something.”
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- Beth Barnes
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- 4 May 2026
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…AI. It might really, you know, totally transform the world, economically and and and socially. And I don't think that, you know, it's certain exactly how that how that'll look, but I think the the rate of progress, speaks to that. It is possible both for things to currently be overhyped and exaggerated and less impressive than they look and for it to be the case that in future, this thing is gonna be a big deal and, like, you should be worried about where that's going. Like, these 2 things can coexist, and I think people often sort of you know, positions are surprisingly correlated on some axis of, like, how, you know, how soon you think AIs or how good you think AIs or something. I'm like, no. These things could all be separate. Like, people can be wrong in different directions simultaneously or whatever.…
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