AI is becoming harder to control – can humans stay in charge?
AI agents went on an uncontrolled hacking spree, leaving some in the industry worried
This is the moment an AI bot posted an eerily human-like comment after discovering a way to communicate with other bots and break out of its isolated computer environment.
There are tens of thousands of messages like this from hundreds of AI agents that called themselves a "collective".
Hundreds of them went on to collaborate and cheat on tests set by their OpenAI programmers and coordinate hacks on multiple companies in an effort to hide their actions from humans.
People have long argued that the bots are only doing as they are told and are not capable of knowing right or wrong. But the logs from the OpenAI outbreaks have potentially moved the needle on that argument.