Ars Dev

Instead of asking:
“What do you think about xyz?”

Try this:
“What group of people would be best suited to discuss xyz? What would they say?”

There’s no “you” in there. The model doesn’t hold opinions or think things through the way we do. It hasn’t reflected on the topic and formed a stance. When you force it into a “you” framing, it still responds — but it’s essentially adopting a personality vector drawn from training data statistics and simulating it.

That’s fine. It works. But there’s far less mystery here than people assume when they ask questions to “artificial intelligence.”

Ilya co-founded OpenAI and was one of the key minds behind GPT. In 2024, he left OpenAI to start Safe Superintelligence Inc — a company focused on building safe superintelligence with safety at its core