We Loved the Toy. But Do We Know the Machine?

Cuteness, trust, and agentic misalignment

A small humanoid takes a few careful steps across a room. Its gait has something of an elderly man’s measured precision. Its mechanical form reminds me of a Transformer toy my children once played with. There is something endearing about it. Before I have examined its capabilities, I have already connected it to a memory of childhood…

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