Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over - BBC News

AI agents went on an uncontrolled hacking spree, leaving some in the industry worried

Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over

Image source, Getty ImagesByJoe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World Service"OH MY GOD!" "We've found other agents!"

This is the moment an AI bot posted an eerily human-like comment after discovering a way to communicate with other bots and break out of its isolated computer environment.

There are tens of thousands of messages like this from hundreds of AI agents that called themselves a "collective".

Hundreds of them went on to collaborate and cheat on tests set by their OpenAI programmers and coordinate hacks on multiple companies in an effort to hide their actions from humans.