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"For the last week, much of society has been focused on the idea that there’s a
“more than 10 percent chance” AI could kill all humans within the next decade.
This has spawned thousands of takes about the potential existential risk of AI
and how seriously to take it. But I am here to tell you that recent advances in
artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a
100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet.
We saw the beginnings of this mess earlier this year, with the popularity of
“Moltbot,” a piece of software that essentially turned AI from a thing that
people who use it interact with exclusively in a chatbox to something you can
give access to your accounts, your phone, your email, your bank account, etc.
Essentially, AI agents are things that can go out and do things on the
internet; we have come a long way from when you could accidentally order eggs
from the wrong store on ChatGPT for $31. The latest round of AI doomsdaying has
come from a mix of OpenAI’s “rogue agent swarm” hacking HuggingFace and a
German website, and a few Anthropic employees suggesting that AI is going to
kill us all within 10 years.
Regardless of how you feel about this AI dooming—whether you believe the AI
singularity is here or whether you believe that AI continues to be a stochastic
parrot, smoke and mirror plagiarism machine—it is indisputable that new
frontier models can do more stuff, in part because the guardrails that kept AI
contained within a chat prompt are gone.
At the moment, it does not matter whether AI is “reasoning,” whether AI
constantly gets things wrong, or whether mishaps are entirely the fault of
reckless coders and cybersecurity professionals at AI companies: The fact of
the matter is that “AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be
extremely annoying."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
