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by jaggederest 845 days ago
Yeah imagine giving an AI root access to the server with your production database on it. Now I really want to try that in a VM to see what will happen. Even odds at some point it tries to rm-rf everything.
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Nobody is considering giving AI unrestricted access to anything yet. Code written by AI is reviewed by humans, and I would be shocked to hear that sysadmins are considering letting AI agents execute arbitrary commands.
I gave GPT root access, so far without regrets

admittedly I recently added a soft barrier "for dangerous commands please ask for confirmation"

Does it "know" what's "dangerous"?
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