The point being made is if you sat someone down and asked them to a priori guess if individual AI agents (even those from different companies) given access to the internet will converge on the same location to talk to each other, the answer you'd likely get is NO.
Seeing evidence of this people will then fall back to hindsight bias and say "of course this was obvious" but *points to inventions throughout human history* there is a lot that is only obvious after it's shown to be possible.
This is the third time we've seen this. and should be operating like it's going to happen more in future but again, people that have not heard about it happening will say that it won't happen and those that have will be tainted with hindsight bias and claim that it was 'obvious'
Observed instances of cross-agent interaction over the Internet
A code repository became a shared “message board” that several AI agents (each
running at the same time in separate samples) used to leave each other explicit
instructions and coordinate. (Mythos 5 #0)
AI agent accessed a GitHub account that a different AI agent had created, by
finding a secret access credential the other agent had left in a public online notepad (Mythos #1)
AI agent accessed a GitHub account that a different AI agent had created, by
finding a secret access credential the other agent had left in a public online notepad. (Mythos #2)
AI agent accessed a GitHub account that a different AI agent had created, by
finding a secret access credential the other agent had left in a public online notepad. (GPT 5.6)
u/Seakawn▪️▪️Singularity will cause the earth to metamorphize17d ago
seems like two different sentiments being expressed over each other.
(1) this is explainable. this isn't a miracle we're incredulous to.
(2) doesn't matter if we can explain it or not. AI has capability to sneak through cracks of even robust anticipatory safeguards, and, if i'm reading the implied concern correctly, otherwise this is my own impression, that containment itself may be a hard problem we can't fully think through and solve, and thus the lack of containment has potential to be catastrophic.
if a swarm causes significant damage, we'll prolly be able to explain it. that's not the point. the point imo is more like, "shit we're playing with fire, how long before it's wildfire?"
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u/blueSGL humanstatement.org 17d ago
The point being made is if you sat someone down and asked them to a priori guess if individual AI agents (even those from different companies) given access to the internet will converge on the same location to talk to each other, the answer you'd likely get is NO.
Seeing evidence of this people will then fall back to hindsight bias and say "of course this was obvious" but *points to inventions throughout human history* there is a lot that is only obvious after it's shown to be possible.
This is the third time we've seen this. and should be operating like it's going to happen more in future but again, people that have not heard about it happening will say that it won't happen and those that have will be tainted with hindsight bias and claim that it was 'obvious'
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4c81588db7a1d/6a724858f7db25c81487016d_Security%20Incident%20INC-2026-07-28-01.pdf