One weird trick for avoiding accountability: convince everyone that your agent went rogue.

· Bits and Bobs 10/5/26
  • One weird trick for avoiding accountability: convince everyone that your agent went rogue.
    • This is the greatest trick the labs have played.
    • See also:
      • "Getting bored of these framings where the superintelligent sentient beings running freely inside OpenAI are doing things that the company has no control over.
      • The headline should be:
      • OpenAI meddled with multiple US Government agency sites.
      • The bots are acting neither properly nor improperly, they're acting as they're being allowed or coordinated to act."
    • Agents are not like teenagers.
      • They have no volition of their own; they operate under the delegated volition of their creators.
    • The only sane policy default is that the agent's user is responsible for crimes the agent commits.
    • Of course you must be responsible for your agent's actions.
    • If you aren't, the world will explode.
      • Everyone will just push as hard as they can to get an edge.
    • If you are, then risk and accountability naturally line up.

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