"AI" – chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

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If accessing the internet is a strong means of achieving whatever goal they're given, they'll try to access the net by any means necessary.

This sounds suspiciously anthropomorphised. An LLM doesn’t know what the net is.

If the training data set has code for breaking out of sandboxes then, given enough tokens, it will try that code.

The LLM doesn’t have a goal. It has a set of probable sequences of words.

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