Comment by macNchz

> I don't for a second believe that an agent starts trying to hack backend system, when the form or API it has been asked to use isn't working.

I have seen coding agents on my own machine (in sandboxed VMs) start doing things while trying to accomplish what I've asked that I felt sort of exceeded my mandate (changing database passwords, poking at the egress proxy that's preventing them from accessing some domains). Not to the point of causing any real issues, but I don't have much trouble envisioning scenarios like this when using stronger instructions around pursuing the goal + a running in a misconfigured sandbox envrionment.

That said, there's a lot of potential upside for American AI labs if they're able to get people scared about AI, they can:

- To your point, claim the regulations slowed them down and paper over near/mid term financial concerns

- Get the government to create stupid regulations that don't actually slow them down at all, but do effectively lock out any future competition (and current global competition)

- Position themselves as the only organizations blessed by the government with the ability to make safe AI, therefore eventually allowing them to claim to be some flavor of "too big to fail" and worthy of a bailout, should the financials not work out.

- Effectively create a distraction that avoids further public conversation/accountability/regulation/liability re the more tangible sorts of problems their products cause right now.