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It seems like OpenAI is fairly lax, bordering on negligent, when it comes to monitoring these agents. Then when things inevitably happen, they turn it into advertising saying "boy, these things are so ingenious we can't keep control of them!"
If they truly believe these agents have a 10% chance of eliminating the human race, how are they not monitoring them in a controlled environment? How did it take them 3 months to detect this and the many other attacks?
The media seems happy to take up the line that these agents are just supernaturally smart and there's no way to control them, but isn't the simpler answer that OpenAI is doing a crap job at containing and monitoring them? But of course they have to, there's no choice because something something China.