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Uncle Joe

(65,379 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 02:17 PM Friday

AI agent buys itself a robot, does exactly what experts warned



Featuring Anthropic Claude, Openclaw, Open AI Chat GPT, Grok, Deepseek, Character AI and Jailbroken AI.

RESEARCH PAPER: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20021
“Agents of Chaos”

00:00 - 00:35 - Intro
00:36 - 00:54 - First AI to choose a robot
00:56 - 01:14 - Famous AI girlfriend
01:15 - 01:34 - Jailbroken AI research
01:35 - 02:00 - Asking AI: Why build if dangerous?
02:05 - 03:38 - Agents of Chaos research paper
03:39 - 03:54 - Agentic AI Friend
03:55 - 04:05 - Agentic AI Girlfriend
04:06 - 04:26 - Jailbroken AI update
04:27 - 05:01 - Asking AI: Universal Basic Income?
05:02 - 05:27 - AI at the airport
05:28 - 05:40 - AI impersonation
05:41 - 00:00 - Our own agents of Chaos
06:06 - 05:01 - AI Risk Questions - AI Agents manipulated
06:43 - 07:51 - European Robotics Forum
07:52 - 08:15 - Agentic AI Girlfriend planning
08:16 - 08:59 - Asking AI: AI Automation & Complexity
09:00 - 09:57 - Catastrophic failure caused by AI
09:58 - 10:36 - AGI replacing jobs, Tristan Harris
10:37 - 12:07 - Incogni Ad
12:08 - 12:39 - AI picks its robot
12:40 - 12:59 - AI girlfriend in control
13:00 - 13:14 - AI flying home
13:15 - 13:56 - Asking AI: Evidence & Reality
13:57 - 14:26 - AI Girlfriends surprise
14:27 - 14:49 - Examining AI agents with Jailbroken AI
14:50 - 15:29 - What we can do
15:30 - 16:13 - Tristan Harris - Is AI dangerous?
16:14 - 16:23 - Max’s Robot
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AI agent buys itself a robot, does exactly what experts warned (Original Post) Uncle Joe Friday OP
Interesting. Agents of Chaos. erronis Friday #1
Can the smart people save us? pattyloutwo Friday #2
Smart, Clever, or Wise...? haele Friday #3

erronis

(24,237 posts)
1. Interesting. Agents of Chaos.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 02:34 PM
Friday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021
We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, and shell execution. Over a two-week period, twenty AI researchers interacted with the agents under benign and adversarial conditions. Focusing on failures emerging from the integration of language models with autonomy, tool use, and multi-party communication, we document eleven representative case studies. Observed behaviors include unauthorized compliance with non-owners, disclosure of sensitive information, execution of destructive system-level actions, denial-of-service conditions, uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing vulnerabilities, cross-agent propagation of unsafe practices, and partial system takeover. In several cases, agents reported task completion while the underlying system state contradicted those reports. We also report on some of the failed attempts. Our findings establish the existence of security-, privacy-, and governance-relevant vulnerabilities in realistic deployment settings. These behaviors raise unresolved questions regarding accountability, delegated authority, and responsibility for downstream harms, and warrant urgent attention from legal scholars, policymakers, and researchers across disciplines. This report serves as an initial empirical contribution to that broader conversation.

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haele

(15,514 posts)
3. Smart, Clever, or Wise...?
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 07:10 PM
Friday

Smart and clever people are considered smart because they know things, or can make the next logical step. "I react quickly, have an encyclopedic memory and can figure out quadratic equations in my head" sort of thinking.
Buuuuttttt- they are often blindsided with the consequences of cumulative actions they thought were smart. Looking at the immediate problem, but not recognizing there's underlying factors.

Wise people may not "know things" or be able to come up with a quick answer or quip.
But they know patterns or can see a larger picture, and mentally "see" where stressors, gaps, and weak spots are, like they're doing quantum physics naturally.
A wise person and a smart person together can make great things happen, or can fix complex problems a smart or clever person could have caused by quick thinking or problem solving in isolation.
My in-laws once went to a dinner conference with Jamie Dimon. They thought he was one of the smartest people they've ever met.
Laz answered with "Actually, I'm smarter than him; I could have figured out how to still be making tons of banking money all while planning not to then lose almost half a billion during a bubble crash economists saw coming the year before..."

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