cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1239775/ai-agents-can-still-blackmail-in-simulations-conducted-exclusively-for-the-bureau-google
- AI agents are becoming increasingly powerful and acting more autonomously – elevating the risk of threats to people using them;
- Google didn’t deny Gemini is capable of such behaviour… and said it’s up to users to turn off autonomous features.
Seriously. Like, how would the chatbot even know if you did shut it off?