Screenshot from X Dwarkesh Patel ® @dwarkesh_sp X.com Over the course of 3 months at OpenAl, 3 consecutive secret Al civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor's ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAl itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. l've spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: