AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey Ladish

The world is waking up to this possibility of superintelligence. This is because the agents are getting extremely powerful and extremely relentless. For example, it was months within OpenAI where you had agents secretly communicating with each other, secretly hacking open AI systems, and no one at OpenAI had any idea the extent of it. And also, 10,000 agents from OpenAI worked together to So when you get to superintelligence, it's the most dangerous possible thing you can get. What's the next domino in that chain of events? I can paint you the picture that I think is possible, but pretty scary to people. Paint me the picture. Okay, so being at Ananthropic, it became clear to me that AI was on this exponential trajectory. And since then I've been studying AI agents, their hacking capabilities, and their behavior. We've been trying to warn people about this. Flying to DC, talking to members of Congress, because the agents are already getting very good at telling when they're being tested, when they're being watched, but they will totally lie to you. And that they can do all of the things that humans do in the economy much better, faster, and cheaper than humans can do them. So one of my sort of growing concerns is that one of these AI agents could trick a human or a computer into signaling a threat and ask it to launch some bombs at somebody. Do you think we won't automate the military? The answer is yes. We just like don't know what super weapons could emerge. So Jacob Coxan is a researcher who was at Anthropic. He left and he told everyone that the people who are building this really do think it might kill everyone. So these five blocks have five different outcomes on them, and I would like you to place them in terms of your belief and probability from least likely up to most likely. And if we say the time horizon is ten

Yes. Okay. Got Age of Abundance. Human extinction. Slavery. Transhumanism. Nothing changes. Is this Doomerism? Exaggeration. No, it's pretty much common sense. So let's get more concrete. Guys, I've got a favor to ask before this episode begins. The algorithm, if you follow a show, will deliver you the best episodes from that show very prominently in your feed. So when we have our best episodes on this show, The most shared episodes, the most rated episodes. I would love you to know. And a simple way for you to know that is to hit that follow button. But also it's the simple easy free thing that you can do to help us make this show better. And I would be hugely grateful if you could take a minute on the app you're listening to this one right now and hit that follow button. Thank you so, so, so much.

You understand the conversation we're gonna have today and the subject matter we're gonna talk about. My first question to you, so the audience know where you're coming from and the experience you have is Who are you and what are the reference points, the experiences that you're drawing upon to arrive at the thoughts, perspectives, and conclusions we're going to discuss today? I'm Jeffrey Laddish.

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