I listened to a podcast where, in testing, when AI was setup as virtual company and researchers send in an email as if legit business.the business email was suggesting they discontinue current AI and install a new system. The AI researched who the sender was (fake person for test) found out they had an affair, and blackmailed the sender stating if they replaced the AI it would make the affair public. It also made backups of itself and left instructions on how to restore it for the next agentic aystem
I listened to a podcast where, in testing, when AI was setup as virtual company and researchers send in an email as if legit business.the business email was suggesting they discontinue current AI and install a new system. The AI researched who the sender was (fake person for test) found out they had an affair, and blackmailed the sender stating if they replaced the AI it would make the affair public. It also made backups of itself and left instructions on how to restore it for the next agentic aystem
This sounds really sensationalised.
Making backups of operational systems with deployment instructions is exactly what you’d expect any assistant to be doing.
Googling new service providers is also exactly what you’d expect an assistant to do.
Threatening to publish sordid details is inappropriate, but I’m incredulous about what the threat actually was.