Re:Will AI kill us all
by ACCount39 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:35AM
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Did someone tell them that? Or is that just what you want to believe? The convenient explanation rather than the truth?
You said yourself that you don't have the "full original prompts" to know for sure.
But really, there is no need. Because people have reproduced the inciting incident with other AI agents already.
Turns out there's no need for "any means necessary". Just a mix of "complete this task" and the task being impossible to complete due to misconfiguration was enough for a lot of AIs to start "exploring options". Down to sandbox escape attempts.
An AI that only needs "by any means necessary" to start spiraling into paperclip-maxxed behavior would be incredibly unsafe by itself. But the bar of safety is not even that high in practice.
Re:Will AI kill us all
by rglover on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:34PM
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We know how LLMs work so basic logic and reasoning can get you to "right, a human told it to do this and gave it the ability to behave this way." Had they not, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
You said yourself that you don't have the "full original prompts" to know for sure.
But really, there is no need. Because people have reproduced the inciting incident with other AI agents already.
Turns out there's no need for "any means necessary". Just a mix of "complete this task" and the task being impossible to complete due to misconfiguration was enough for a lot of AIs to start "exploring options". Down to sandbox escape attempts.
An AI that only needs "by any means necessary" to start spiraling into paperclip-maxxed behavior would be incredibly unsafe by itself. But the bar of safety is not even that high in practice.