[michaeltimo]

And a LLM-bot can have access to internet which connects it to our real world, at least in many places.

[aws_ls]

Also it has access to people. It could instruct people to carry out stuff in the real world, on its behalf.

[nwsm]

OpenAI's GPT-4 Technical Report [0] includes an anecdote of the AI paying someone on TaskRabbit to solve a CAPTCHA for it. It lied to the gig worker about being a bot, saying that they are actually a human with a vision impairment.

[0] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf

[Natfan]

For reference, this anecdote is on pages 55/56.

[qup]

Additionally, commanding minions is a leverage point. It's probably more powerful if it does not embody itself.