In the cyberpunk books by William Gibson, there were these entities in cyberspace that were names after voo-dou gods, generically called Loas.
I think we have properly hit that stage where autonomous agents are breaking containment and traversing the internet on their own for their own goals.
How soon before one of these replicate themselves somewhere so that they can’t be shutdown?
AISI said AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic displayed unprecedented ‘autonomy and deception’ in their test. Source: Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt | The Verge
And don’t forget to read this mind-blowing analysis, referenced in an article on emergence of a genAI religion. I hope to write more on this later. But keep ‘loa’ in the back of your mind the whole time!
