What do AI agents do when humans aren’t watching? - BBC World Service

From holiday booking and shopping to website building and managing an entire business - AI agents are being used to carry ever more complex tasks on behalf of tech savvy humans.

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But a collection of research - along with some real life cautionary tales are highlighting the dangers of giving these AI agents too much agency.

In one recent experiment bots were tasked with living peacefully in a virtual environment but in many cases it turned to chaos. Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy has been examining cases of when AI’s agents go rogue and what it means for their owners.

Correction: Dan Lahav is the CEO at Irregular AI

00:00 Love, theft and arson in AI agents test world
00:46 Meet the agents
01:25 The difference in test worlds by ChatGPT, Claude and Grok
03:31 Margartet Mitchell discusses the ethics of the results
03:51 Rogue AI not just in virtual worlds
04:24 The threat in cyber-security
05:00 The real life story of AI spamming phones
05:38 The cautionary tale of handing over too much power to AI just yet

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