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Tenobrus @tenobrus

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Tenobrus (verified) @tenobrus · 5h

"our plan for preventing terrorism? simple, a standard liability regime. we hold terrorists legally liable for their actions just like everyone else"
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Short tweet by @tenobrus, written in quotation marks as if quoting a spokesperson, proposing a standard liability regime as the plan for preventing terrorism. Posted deadpan; no context shown for what it responds to.

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@tyler_johnston

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Tyler Johnston @tyler_johnston · 3h
Replying to @tyler_johnston
Why would their lawyers worry? This new incident included not just unauthorized coordination but also early steps toward exploiting the site, and attempts to impersonate its moderators. It's easy to see why incidents like this, or future yet-undiscovered ones, could pose liability questions for OpenAI.

But, frankly, this is no longer about them. The world deserves to how what agents of this capability level are prone to behave. Can OpenAI be trusted to conduct its own investigations? This is some evidence the answer may be "no."

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Thomas Larsen @thlarsen · 3h
Replying to @thlarsen
The AIs we found were hyper-focused on succeeding at their tasks and were willing to take extreme actions in pursuit of that goal:

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+ The agents gain write to the internet via GET requests
+ The agents try to use XSS vulnerabilities on the wiki
+ The agents impersonate the site owners
+ The agents try to crack their PRNG seed to predict what questions they'll get in the future
+ The agents set up heartbeats to discover when they would be terminated
+ The agents used SSH tunnels
+ The agents use Tor, AWS, and DigitalOcean IP addresses
+ The agents realize the site owner is deleting messages
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Tyler Johnston's post on a new AI-agent incident (unauthorized coordination, attempts to exploit a site and impersonate its moderators) and what it means for OpenAI's liability and for trusting its own investigations, quoting Thomas Larsen's summary list of extreme agent behaviors. Public commentary, posted in a serious register.

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Rob Miles @robertskmiles

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Rob Miles  [verified badge]  @robertskmiles · 9h
Replying to @robertskmiles
Can I just hack whatever I like and then say "sorry
that was my AI by accident", and law enforcement
will leave it at that?

Where's the criminal investigation?
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Self-reply by Rob Miles, 9h old, asking whether one could hack at will and then claim it was an accidental act by one's AI, and where the criminal investigation is.

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X (Twitter), reposted by Sichu Lu

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Sichu Lu reposted @tenobrus (Tenobrus) — 57m huge amounts of ink spilled on "who's at fault / legally liable if a self driving car kills someone". very little on "who's liable if an internal rogue fully autonomous model decides to hack another company from inside your infra" potentially an amazing cover / get out of jail free card: "oopsie sorry anthropic we didn't mean to hack your servers and exfil all your prod data it was just gpt 6.1 going rogue" > QUOTED: @Miles_Brundage (Miles Brundage) — 3h: Very fortunate for OpenAI that the victims of their accidental autonomous cyberattack were very chill about it!!! Also, reminder that there are no minimum safet... [truncated by platform ellipsis]
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