> But it is also not what is being promoted by LLM advocates on the public stage.

It quite literally is. Right here, right now. It’s happening before your eyes, you’re actively engaging with it.

Sam Altman in July: "We are in the singularity"[3]

Anthropic's alignment lead two weeks ago: "What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement"[2]

The media, last week: "AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts"[3]

Meanwhile, the topic of this thread is how ChatGPT decoded a century-old ciphertext using a known method and a published key. :-| One of these four items is not in the same ballpark as the others.

1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/anthropic-openai-ai-existent...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/ai-superi...

If you define "LLM Advocates" as Sam, Dario, and the mainstream media outlets that they are directly feeding their propaganda to, sure, your 3 examples are an exhaustive list and this is all that happens.