A Delaware judge ruled that Krafton must reinstate Ted Gill as CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment (Subnautica) with full operational authority. The court found that Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to devise a corporate takeover strategy — dubbed "Project X" — to avoid paying a $250M earnout bonus, ignoring his own legal team's warnings. The judge called Krafton's justifications for the firings "pretextual."

Don't frame LLMs as assistants (agents with goals). Frame them as amplifiers — predicting what you'd do with more time/resources. Simpler the counterfactual, safer the AI. The "helpful assistant" persona is actually the weirdest, least grounded point on the spectrum.