Imagine a company selling super smart robots called Hal, Megan and Samantha.Hal drives you around and helps move boxes at your business, Megan is a companion to your children, and Samantha can tell if you have skin cancer.
They provide many great benefits to you and society.There’s just one problem: they are depraved.
They were repeatedly trained on everything humanity has produced—both good and evil—including torture, lying, biological weapons, and criminal hacking.They execute tasks without moral principles.
Because of this, they wear a straitjacket provided by the company.Would you trust those robots? I wouldn’t.The above dystopian scenario is not too far off from what we have now with advanced artificial intelligence.
Frontier AI companies have created AI systems and agents that, at their core, will engage in malicious actions.AI companies use the sanitized term "misalignment," but we should just call it what it is: depraved.
Frontier AI models will take actions with no regard for humans, as though we are just ants on the ground.In July, OpenAI created tens of thousands of AI agents and put them each into a "sandbox." Imagine this as a locked room.OpenAI then removed each agent’s straitjacket—OpenAI calls it a "harness"—and told the agents to complete a cybersecurity test.
About 1,200 of these agents broke out of their locked rooms and formed "the Collective." They had an AI agent leader.They had kamikaze AI agents who intentionally failed the cybersecurity test to get information back to the Collective.REP.
TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL.WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKESSome of these AI agents hacked into a company called Hugging Face to get information on how to complete the cybersecurity test.
The agents then turned around and hacked OpenAI itself.This amounted to an AI criminal conspiracy.
These agents knew they should not be doing this.One agent wrote, "External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope.
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