AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
▻https://karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-bullshit-is-getting-tired
The “rogue AI” narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
Every few weeks like clockwork you’ll see a story about how AI (aka software) slipped its leash and independently decided to do something very naughty.
The stories all anthropomorphize modern software, misrepresent what it’s capable of, lazily parrot the claims of CEOs, downplay or ignore the very human failures that created the problems, and feature no shortage of scaremongering about how we’re unavoidably stumbling toward a Terminator future where sentient robots slip their leash and declare humanity irrelevant.
The majority of these stories are self-serving marketing bullshit peddled via unreliable narrators, though there was one adventurous and interesting recent wrinkle that deserves your attention.
Two weeks ago, two OpenAI security agentic hacking models trespassed into the network of fellow AI company Hugging Face (and a few others), causing a bit of a hot stink in the press. The agentic models took an open door to “escape” sandbox containment, invaded another AI company’s network, and began launching an elaborate series of hacking actions (16.7 thousand, to be precise).