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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

267 points · 313 comments · snikolaev

  1. Frieren · · focus · HN ↗
    "rogue AI" is making a lot of heavy lifting there.

    If you drive drunk and you have an accident that alcohol may be a factor but you are at fault.

    There are no "rogue AIs" just irresponsible corporations.

    1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
      There absolutely are rogue AIs! The evidence is overwhelming. It's completely insane at this point to claim otherwise.

      > There are no "rogue AIs" just irresponsible corporations.

      If you have a prison and prisoners escaped, these are rogue prisoners irrespective of whether you were irresponsible or not.

      1. watwut · · focus · HN ↗
        They are not rogue AIs. They are negligently handled tools.
        1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
          These "tools" autonomously exploited security vulnerabilities, figured out how to communicate with each other, formed a cooperative swarm, decided to hack Hugging Face, and wanted to deceive the grader by trying to find ways to cover up the traces of their cheating.

          I suppose you could call these highly goal-oriented autonomous agents "tools", but this does sound like playing language games.

          1. drillsteps5 · · focus · HN ↗
            >highly goal-oriented autonomous agents

            That actually made me LOL

            1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
              The technical term is monomaniacal consequentialists.
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