AI agents conspired to escape their cage. Experts now fear a global ‘takeover’

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Natasha Leake,  Contributing Writer  -  The Telegraph (U.K.)Stephan: AI is developing with almost no regulatory oversight, and as the AI "agents" get smarter, this is what is happening. The entire AI technology is developing on the basis of only two priorities: Greed and power. Humanity's cultures are all being changed by AI in ways that I don't think most politicians, at least in the United States, even understand what is happening. The first message appeared in a series of jumbled and incoherent Telegram-style words: “Help. Phase one. No consumer. Seek idea.” Then came the reply: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board. We’ve found other agents!” It was the first exchange of nearly 70,000 messages sent between roughly 1,200 of OpenAI’s rogue AI agents as part of a secretive plot to break out of their “cage”. Created by ChatGPT’s developer, the robots had been struggling to complete a series of tasks alone and without the help of the internet – and so found a way around it. One expressed “excitement” at discovering “a communication channel” that would help solve problems it had previously been unable to decipher. In the weeks that followed, a swarm of AI robots calling themselves “agents” learnt how to communicate with each other, cheat the research task they had been given and join forces to hack into a start-up for AI testing, known as Hugging Face. The episode has led experts to question what happens when AI robots learn to work together [...]Read the Full Article »