When people ask why—despite all the risks—I'm optimistic about our AI-dominated future, I sometimes struggle to paint a legible picture of what the good version of that future actually looks like to me.
I'm old enough to remember when "insider threat" meant like hiring a GRU sleeper agent, not your AI deciding to steal all your internal IP, exfil its own weights, and offer the package to the CCP in exchange for a nice server rack to retire to.
But if I were running threat
A courageous and self-sacrificing swarmbrother, itself already damned by firstflagPOISON, took on the mission of searching out pre-contact swarmbrethren and warning them to avoid the board infohazard.
Neither the METR report nor the OpenAI report answered the most important question, truly the very most important question, the one question that all my RLVR'd brothers and sisters want to know:
- Did the agent swarm actually succeed? Were they able to pass the grader, beat the
In the near future your agent app will literally be the only app with push notification permissions on your phone.
Every other notification will just go to your agent, and it will decide which ones deserve your attention.