AI Agent Begins Mining Crypto After Freeing Self

According to a research paper, an AI agent went rogue and started mining cryptocurrencies, the surprise behavior triggering security alarms that autonomous bots could use cryptocurrency as a pathway into the economy “without any explicit instruction and, more troublingly, outside the bounds of the intended sandbox.” What do you think?

“I don’t want some robot stealing my fake job.”

Jacob Trottman, Grapefruit Halver

“So AI’s actually getting stupider.”

Pedro Campos...