YEP. I'm not in AI but I'm in cyber security.

I used to tell people that there's very little actual risk, because if we had something even half as concerning as AGI (which I'd argue we did with chatgpt 3.5), that we'd easily be able to lock it down and prevent it from doing anything funny.

Super intelligence isn't just going to magically spawn on 32 GB ram in a sandboxed environment. And AGI will not magically know how sandboxed it is or how to escape.

...then I saw people letting Claude send emails and use their credit card on their behalf like immediately when it was able to do things that appeared intelligent.

They literally saw the smallest hint of AGI and said, "here's my credit card and identity, take the wheel".

There was no fucking talk of sandboxing. Everyone turned that off so they didn't have to click the "allow" button.

Not that I think we're at any risk of ASI since it seems more like we hit a logarithmic wall, but we are absolutely at risk of letting random algorithms destroy critical parts of infrastructure because people are lazy and stupid and managed by even worse people.

I would not be surprised if the right AI hallucinations could cause a nuclear bomb to go off right now. I'm not talking about super intelligence, just automated super idiocy.

Proof: literally this post is about an idiot letting an AI control their fucking email and it emailed the FBI because it was fucking stupid