An antidote to AI hype: AI agents are not “going rogue”

This is part two of an ongoing series about AI hype. Read part one here. And if you want a livelier retelling of this OpenAI hack, filled with rowdiness and Rugrats references, listen to episode 7 of The Last Enclosure podcast wherever you get your shows. OpenAI hacked Hugging Face, another AI company, in July. Shortly after, Anthropic and Meta lined up to share that their models have also been naughty this year. Even Chinese models are getting in on the fun. Then, in early August, OpenAI gave a presentation about their negligence incident, which may (or may not) violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The rush to report agentic breaches has gotten so absurd it’s become a meme, and people are now betting on prediction markets about when another AI lab will announce a new hack.Spotted on r/singularity these are both memes/fake stories but definitely capture the sentiment even AI boosters feel toward frontier labs reporting incidentsSo what the hell is going on? Like Sisyphus, I feel…

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