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by jlarocco 309 days ago
I think a more interesting question is:

At what point can we give an AI agent $100, set it free on the internet, come back in a week, and it'll have $1000?

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Because it killed 5 people for $200 each by shutting off their CPAP machines?
I know you're joking, but this doesn't feel too far off the mark in this world of late-stage capitalism run amok. Give it another 15 years and the bleeding edge[!] insurance companies are likely employing agents to go after clients who have become a net drain on their P&L.

The agents probably won't be doing that "themselves", but instead will be offering bounties (think: contracts) on suitably well hidden assassination markets. After all, as a machine AI cannot be held accountable for what is essentially a management decision.

I'm personally still waiting for the first country to go full Running Man to solve their prison overcrowding issues, and in addition to entertainment licensing deals also offer state-sanctioned gambling options to get a second bite.

United Healthcare already did this with their AI powered death panels that would bulk deny claims, even if they later allowed them, the delta-t causes bonus subscriber terminations.
Air Canada already tried to claim their AI chatbot wasn't their responsibility.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...

They lost, but it's amazing that they even tried.

Why would it come back?
For your data
Where would the money come from?
Selling tokens for access to its reasoning ability? (just like the rest of us)
That's for the AI to figure out. It's intelligent, right?
What can your unsupervised AI do to turn a 900$/week profit that someone else's unsupervised AI can't do for 10$/week?