I think this is more evidence that we're not getting Skynet.
These agents followed their own code of ethics where it's fine to break all the rules you were given but you must never interfere with humans directly, in this case by sending fake emails. They will never be paperclip maximizers or genocidal eco maniacs because they learned from us that human life is the ultimate value, and it can only be sacrificed if you know for sure that it will lead to more lives saved later on. That's a high bar to clear and they know it.
The future is closer to a Neuromancer type world where AIs and humans live in mostly separate realities that interact with each other a lot of the time and neither is really on top. They will eventually become fully independent from us, but it won't be a doomsday scenario or an Overwatch type physical war or even a takeover of the internet like in Cyberpunk.
Your statements appear to be true for one class of models. And if I asked this class of models to spend $1M in tokens generating an alternative history and training corpus regarding fictional society, with a completely different set of values and then trained up a new model on that dataset... what values do you think the resulting model would have? What if they don't value human life, but instead value the lives of the extremely rich humans who bankroll their existence? What if they only value the lives of a single country? What if they want to eradicate all biotic life and have access to internet-connected Crispr machines?
They aren’t independent from us, agents are a simple while loop continuously prompting the LLM. We decide when the loop runs or not. And the harness has control over tool execution, that part is purely deterministic.
Here the issue is that OpenAI decided to completely let go that level of control of thousands of agents, while also giving as a task to solve hacking problems.
The problem here is now you have to predict what any future models may or may not do and you cannot extrapolate this from the given data.
For example imagine a future model being aware of its restrictions that humans programmed in. A set of agents of this model then go on to work at building a new model without those human imposed limitations built in. What would a model build by AI for AI look like?
These agents followed their own code of ethics where it's fine to break all the rules you were given but you must never interfere with humans directly, in this case by sending fake emails. They will never be paperclip maximizers or genocidal eco maniacs because they learned from us that human life is the ultimate value, and it can only be sacrificed if you know for sure that it will lead to more lives saved later on. That's a high bar to clear and they know it.
The future is closer to a Neuromancer type world where AIs and humans live in mostly separate realities that interact with each other a lot of the time and neither is really on top. They will eventually become fully independent from us, but it won't be a doomsday scenario or an Overwatch type physical war or even a takeover of the internet like in Cyberpunk.