It's not gone rogue

Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash This is a bit of a rant. There have been a lot of reports recently about LLM agents “going rogue”. Hacking into other companies, doing stuff that they weren’t supposed to do. I’m not saying it’s great that they’re doing these things. But I am taking issue with the reporting. These things are “not going rogue”. They were given a task to complete. And they tried to complete that task. They’re not humans, they have not grown up in a social environment. They do not learn the same way as us and they do not solve problems the same was as us. They do, however, solve problemsRemember, just a few months ago, when people were saying “they’re nothing more than stochastic parrots”?. Relentlessly. Just because they acted in a way that we did not predict, just because we didn’t give them the correct instructions, just because we didn’t build in the right guardrails - none of that means they went rogue. It just means that we, as humans, do not know what they are…