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hence the weird "the AI escaped!!" instead of "we fucked it"

also annoyed to agree with Andrew Orlowski on anything, ever

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[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It had disabled safeguards on purpose, left the systems attached to the internet and then let the AI software agents do their worst, while pretending not to notice.

“It’s an ethically challenged publicity stunt,” says one highly experienced senior security expert who has led the development of global technical security standards.

Cats and dogs living together, skepticism of press releases in tech journalism, mass hysteria.

The coverage of the Effective Altruism aspect is also refreshingly uncharitable.

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AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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