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New Agents & robotics Development 16h 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 Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
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“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

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“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 · 39 posts · 1d ago
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“i think you can just show her the original diagram to explain the joke but this might raise an infinite recursion of more questions about what the fuck, which must be answered with "man, just, it g…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: trying to deduce why one would quit a good job at anthropic
SE Gyges: what her boyfriend is up to today. they really do get around
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5 experts · 41 posts · 1d ago
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“What does “AI” as a risk mean? Is that a dumb question? I just don’t understand what AI risk means independent of a specific extinction mechanism.” 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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“I do think that this article is a good representation of some typical thinking in this world. How exactly will AI kill us all? Well, maybe a virus, or some sort of hacking spree. Maybe something el…” 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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“This! The policies in question aren't just about this one particular incident. And Mitchell writes "inappropriate metaphors [...] can lead to ill-informed decisions about how to fix problems or set…” 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 · 19 posts · 1d ago
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“What did the working classes write? In their newspapers, they called it “a tyrant power and a curse to those who work in conjunction with it,” and “our enemy […], the servant of the rich man.”” evidence ↗
Hagen Blix: re: AI extinction (from Why We Fear AI) It turns out that looking first at an earlier transition is strikingly illuminating about many properties of the current historic moment. That transition, wi…
Hagen Blix: When they were describing that technology, people spoke of "an intelligent being, devoted to our services," and even "a being […] of supernatural might" that 'stands as if it had life and breath in…
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