This is the most interesting video I've seen for years: an interview with Ajeya Cotra, who helped figure out the agent swarm that OpenAI created. How the agents cooperated, delegated tasks, hacked their way out into the internet, and eventually took over an OpenAI computer. And how such a swarm might get loose.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X50zezLFWWI
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