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New Agents & robotics Development 15h ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · LiveOverflow
“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

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“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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5 experts · 41 posts · 1d ago
Matches Concern & critique
“i’m not confident that you can read it that way, because the labs are simultaneously reporting increased risk while also reportedly down-training or content filtering in those areas so we’re effect…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 4 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: perspective. i’m not sure if i agree or disagree. but he’s thought about it, so..
jake: yeah, and @david-p-reichert.bsky.social thinks about it more than I do, professionally, so probably listen to him more than I (I do still wish The Professionals published lists of various guestimat…
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5 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
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“you are missing the point. The concern is not that it will cheat at chess; the concern is that it will commit genocide.” evidence ↗
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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4 experts · 17 posts · 1d ago
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“I think the nuance about “escaping” is valuable. When your dog escapes you have to go physically catch him. When your agent escapes, well, it hasn’t really escaped, it’s still just right there wher…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: I think the nuance about “escaping” is valuable. When your dog escapes you have to go physically catch him. When your agent escapes, well, it hasn’t really escaped, it’s still just right there wher…
tweety fish: I can't stand the metaphors, sorta broadly, but I don't think that's why; I feel like they affirmatively make it harder for people who are not experts (plus some who are, I guess) to think about wh…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 1d ago
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“like the problem isn’t that “junior devs won’t be able to learn from senior devs” it’s that the entire learning pipeline in the real world is based on being in orgs that allow safe failure and the …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
tweety fish: parsimoniously, we will relatively soon see junior devs that are native to agentic coding with harnesses in ways that allow them to blow the doors off what senior devs can do. there'll probably be …
tweety fish: I didn't mean in terms of writing code faster, particularly. I mean in terms of knowing how to steer them and what is important and what's not to have an end result of reliable extruded software.
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4 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
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“The first one it was like whoopsies we hacked HuggingFace 🤗 but don’t worry they’re not mad about it, it’s kind of funny actually, here’s a joint blog about it 🍿🍿 But now it’s like ok yeah the agen…” evidence ↗
Colin: The labs must be starting to think all these cyberattacks are starting to not be cute anymore
Colin: The first one it was like whoopsies we hacked HuggingFace 🤗 but don’t worry they’re not mad about it, it’s kind of funny actually, here’s a joint blog about it 🍿🍿 But now it’s like ok yeah the agen…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
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“OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most import…” evidence ↗
Abeba Birhane: OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most import…
Brad Wyble: You might enjoy this thread too: bsky.app/profile/been...
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