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- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have said AI is developing too quickly; the guide turns their warning about recursive self-improvement into a costume built around productivity books, a yoga mat and a large water bottle.
- Meta and OpenAI recently launched AI assistants with “creepily cute” avatars, inspiring a costume that asks partygoers for read/write access to their Gmail.
- Meta glasses become a recording-themed costume by adding a red or white circle to one lens, with an explicit warning not to record anyone without consent.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s signature oversized black T-shirts inspire costumes labeled “Building is my love language” or the ominous Latin phrase “Aut Zuck aut nihil.”
- Claude supplies the costume motif: printed screenshots of usage-limit notifications can be used to spook vibe-coders after tokens run out.
- PHP vulnerabilities inspire a costume requiring a PHP T-shirt and emotional vulnerability, after AI unearthed critical flaws last week that could have been catastrophic for the internet.
- Bryan Johnson’s “GLP-Bryan” idea, drawn from an X post about lying on partner Kate to calm her nervous system, becomes a couples costume requiring a T-shirt, jeans and an unsettling full-body lie.
Why it matters: For readers, the two named AI leaders—Sam Altman and Dario Amodei—provide a topical anchor for a costume that turns warnings about rapid AI development into a joke about human self-improvement. The guide also makes privacy concrete through a Gmail-access gag and a Meta-glasses costume that explicitly warns not to record anyone without consent.
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