I am obviously by no means a technically-adept researcher, but the analogy that keeps coming to mind for me is how the Chernobyl meltdown was caused by a testing environment whose job was to just go and throw out the conditions that could prevent disaster, until an unintentional second-order design flaw sabotaged the remaining capabilities present within the lattice of preventative action.
Really great that we have the OpenAI and METR reports out now. Still digesting them. I'm personally much more interested in the possible *causes* of the behaviours as opposed to the specific incidents/behaviours themselves; with this in mind, I found the following excerpts from