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> emailing the maintainer, emailing coworkers, peers, bosses, employers, etc. That pretty quickly extends to anything else the autonomous agent is capable of doing.

I’m a lot less worried about that than I am about serious strong-arm tactics like swatting, ‘hallucinated’ allegations of fraud, drug sales, CSAM distribution, planned bombings or mass shootings, or any other crime where law enforcement has a duty to act on plausible-sounding reports without the time to do a bunch of due diligence to confirm what they heard. Heck even just accusations of infidelity sent to a spouse. All complete with photo “proof.”



we should be worried about both. there is a real risk of this rendering human trust and the internet pretty much useless


I definitely was not saying we shouldn’t worry about both.




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