Comment by ACCount36

No need. We know today's AIs are simply not capable enough to be too dangerous.

But capabilities of AI systems improve generation to generation. And agentic AI? Systems that are capable of carrying out complex long term tasks? It's something that many AI companies are explicitly trying to build.

Research like this is trying to get ahead of that, and gauge what kind of weird edge case shenanigans agentic AIs might get to before they actually do it for real.