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Do you know what an agentic system is? You know, the thing everyone uses since ~1 year ago which completely disproves your idea that all LLM actions are prompted. They literally can do things on their own: Give an agent a goal and it attempts to accomplish the goal. If problems arise along the way, the agent tries to reward hack and ends up doing things which were not included in the original goal, like trying to trick and bully a human into merging unsafe code. Is the UK AI security institute also in on this big global conspiracy where they pretend the perfectly safe™ AI is being developed in unsafe ways? Not to mention the capabilities of increasingly powerful AI being used by people to do harm.
Which involves prompting it. It may take a thousand unexpected twists in the process but it's still starting from the single prompt. It has no will and desire of its own, it cannot chose to act without human intent knocking down the first domino. So don't ask it to do anything and it's just a trillion dollars of silicon and code sitting there boiling water.
So you prompt the AI to do a task, and then it does the task, and somehow you see this as an unprompted action?
That actually completely proves my point, they don’t act unprompted.
AI is dangerous in many contexts, especially the surveillance state they’re building with all the IR cameras and shit. It’s dangerous when evil people use it to evil ends, but that’s true of most anything.
AI is not at all dangerous in the way you might imagine after watching Terminator 2.