On the flip side, what we saw in the Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment. Swarms of agents colluded with one another. They self-organized into hierarchies. They created a division of labor so that some were focused on adversarial hacking, some were doing research, some were doing coordination. They even self-sacrificed when certain agents were running out of tokens.
You might also like
The last of these — the progressives who simply couldn't admit that billionaire-funded private industry could build something powerful enough to endanger humanity — were the strangest of all, since their refusal to acknowledge the effectiveness of AI basically put them in an alliance with libertarians, hawks, and Trump.
Noah Smith
It did not take much time using the product for us to begin taking large language models and the companies building them extremely seriously. Four months into our run, my cohost's long conversation with an unhinged version of Microsoft Bing captivated the world and brought AI safety discussions into the mainstream. (It also drew a fair amount of ridicule, previewing the ways in which the commentariat would continually twist itself into pretzels to deny that anything important was happening with LLMs.)
Casey Newton
There are so many AI risks to democracy, capitalisms and society not being talked about when x-risk takes the center of the stage.
Michael Spencer