Comment by bostik
9 hours ago
The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor.
They have a vast latent knowledge base, infinite patience and zero capacity for making personal judgement calls. You give one a goal and it will try to meet that goal.
> The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor.
A scary image, if we consider agents to develop anything like a conscience at some point in time. Of course, with the current approach they never might, but are we so sure?