Source: Washington Post
by Jason Willick
“The Hugging Face episode highlights the mischief that could await as powerful AI agents start to populate the internet. Their owners might give them innocent tasks that unintentionally prompt them to ingeniously hack, steal and sabotage as they doggedly pursue a technical outcome the owner desires. The horror movie plots write themselves. But for all the alarm this specter generates, there’s also a reassuring angle. … what becomes of another predictive claim made by AI ‘doomers’: that AI agents will render human beings obsolete across large swaths of the economy? If AI proves to have an irreducibly genie-like quality — at least when performing highly technical tasks — then that would undercut its ability to adequately replace human labor.” (09/06/26)