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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 · 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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2 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
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“I don’t think there’s *no* vector of attack, but I think there’s basically no realistic vector that doesn’t have a pretty obvious escalation ladder of precursor mini-dooms first. If I were to back …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
jake: I don’t think there’s *no* vector of attack, but I think there’s basically no realistic vector that doesn’t have a pretty obvious escalation ladder of precursor mini-dooms first. If I were to back …
jake: Agreed that surveillance state, automated warfare, cybercrime (inc video phishing our parents retirement accts) are more near-term pressing. And that countering most steps on vectors of doom are do…
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