Are AI Agents forming "civilizations" or is this just a psy op? | 2332

Top story of the weekend. Dwarke Patel wrote a long X article called The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations. They're building their own civilizations. They're breaking out of their habitat and they're killing each other and then they're s leaving secret messages for each other. This is all performative PR psy-ops. To get people to put their credit card in and to get businesses to sign up for OpenAI in the face of open source software running on prem on NVIDIA's hardware rolled in by Jensen. I know I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but I know good PR when I see it. I've been at this for 30 Fricking years, people. There are autonomous hackers out there, there are AI agents that are already capable of getting into anybody's system. They're out there in the world, they're in immediate danger. Do you not believe that is that he's also part of this hype train? Or do you think there are reasonable security concerns We're just overhyping it in how we're choosing to talk about. This week in Startups is brought to you by Rippling. Don't settle for AI, that's all talk. Head to Rippling.ai slash twist and get the only AI built to give you full visibility across your startup and take complex actions across your entire organization that's R I P P L I N G dot AI slash twist.

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