> If that's the level of evidence you need to be extremely alarmed, then you really should be a lot more worried about the alien invasion in Independence Day or the lizard men living under our feet.

Now let's say instead of the hugging face breach circumstances, sandboxed models were RLing on how to take down the Chinese power grid for US Cyber Command, and one decided the best way to pass the test was to break out and verify on the real thing.

This kind of stuff could easily end in nuclear war.

You don't see any difference from lizard men or independence day with how things are advancing and what we know about reward hacking and difficulties of goal specification?