License to Kill (Training Jobs): The AI Saboteur Who Allegedly Hacked His Way to Fame, Lawsuits, and Notoriety

Twin stories about genius, ethics, and the dark side of resource competition in artificial intelligence research

Because of its complexity, I’m laying this story out in two parts. The first part is a summary of what happened with some personal reflections on implications for the industry. As I read it I realized there would be lots of questions about the timeline, so I had fun and laid out the second version of the same story, calling out each step in the sequence…