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"Acting on their own" is corpo-speak for "We're not liable for our invention fucking up things."

I wrote a script to delete all the files on my computer and when I ran it it started deleting my files all on its own!!

Used the wrong 'their' but fuck it, even worse is I should have used a IT

They weren't acting on their own. In the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's report says agents used shared Artifactory credentials — without exploiting a vulnerability — and an allowlisted service finished the hops. Agency talk relocates who issued the permit.

You can't really avoid that language when agents are send on such long term missions that they make thousands of autonomous decisions.

The malware, waiting for me to provide a hit list, totally has his own distinct personality, so I can't be held responsible.

Rogue AI agents repeatedly crush me at chess.

Yours too, huh? There seem to be a lot of malignant copies of that game out there.

"And somehow this parasite got access to the open internet and started ddosing-" "Wait the open internet? Who gave it access to the internet?" "I did that now please stop interrupting I think you're missing the part about the parasite"

If you start your car, and it misbehaves into a neighbor's house, you're still liable.

To be fair, it’s really hard to codify social constructs like governments in such a way that a LLM would “understand” (for lack of a better word), but you’d think that’d give people pause about using incomprehensible web scrapers for doing literally anything (especially NatSec adjacent stuff)