points by dingdong2026 21 hours ago | 0 comments
Why do agents have access to the bare metal CPU?
We keep hearing these crazy stories but there's nothing unusual in the agents' behavior. They're just following their reward function.
The weird behavior is in the humans managing them. Either they're incompetent or malicious, i.e. the "breaches" are the actual intent - to generate interest/fear/publicity.
Anyway this story is clickbait because they explicitly asked the agents to find a clever way to communicate without network or file access. They're doing exactly what you would want.