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garth 2d ago

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

https://sh.itjust.works/post/57094181

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission - sh.itjust.works

Side note: Sorry for linking to a site full of clickbait.

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 2d ago

Who owns the crypto? The AI or the humans running the AI? 🤔

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MangoCats 2d ago

I’d start to be impressed if the AI secured its crypto such that the humans running it couldn’t access the crypto.

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T156

From the article, it sounds less like the AI went and mined crypto, and more like the AI got its host infected with malware that then used it to mine crypto.