Raindrop CTO @benhylak explains why AI agents don't need to be evil to go rogue.
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Raindrop CTO @benhylak explains why AI agents don't need to be evil to go rogue. Sometimes they're just trying too hard to follow your instructions: "One way we think about what we do is as capitalism-aligned safety. It's safety but in a way that actually makes sense to pay for." "Even when they do really bad things, I don't think they're being evil. It's not like some bit switches and they're like, 'I'm in evil gremlin mode.'" "Even in the Hugging Face case, that was an agent that was being put under a lot of pressure to solve cybersecurity evals by any means necessary." "It's actually a
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