Comment by Nevermark
9 days ago
> OpenClaw’s promise and power was that it could tread places SECURITY-WISE that no other established enterprise company could
[Emphasis mine.]
That's a superpower right up to the moment everyone realizes that handing out nukes isn't "promise and power".
Unless by promise and power we are talking about chaos and crime.
The project is incredible. We are seeing something important: how versatile these models are given freedom to act and communicate with each other.
At the same time, it is clearly going to put the internet at risk. Bad actors are going to use OpenClaw and its "security-wise" freedoms, in nefarious ways. Curious people are going to push AI's with funds onto prepaid servers, then let them sink or swim with regard to agentic acquisition of survival resources.
It is all kinds of crazy from here.
That's a really interesting proposition. Load the AI and let it go wild to try to figure out how it can earn enough money to survive. Perhaps this could be the new Turing test.
It's all fun and games until the AI starts bullying and threatening it's way onto survival.
If it is a Turing Test, it’s a test if our intelligence and we failed.
The internet is a wild west of privacy, security, social and ethical holes an army of grifters routinely drive through. And in the case of some famous big firms, leverage and magnify at scale.
That is bad enough.
But setting up a horde of intelligent beings, so that those holes are their critical path to survival, is like pouring poison into the water supply to see what happens.
Can’t argue with “interesting”. It is that.
I mean there's no reason that the AI would need to act maliciously, thought it would be possible. I was thinking more along the lines of pre-pay for a year of server and tell the AI it has to start a business or something to pay its own bills.
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