[saulpw]

We can continue to experiment while also going slowly. Evolution happens over many millions of years, giving organisms a chance to adapt and find a new niche to occupy. Full-steam-ahead is a terrible way to approach "progress".

[echelon]

> while also going slowly

That's what risk-averse players do. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it's how you get out-innovated.

[Terr_]

If the only danger is the company itself bankrupt, then please, take all the risks you like.

But if they're managing customer-funds or selling fluffy asbestos teddybears, then that's a problem. It's a profoundly different moral landscape when the people choosing the risks (and grabbing any rewards) aren't the people bearing the danger.

[echelon]

You can have this outrage when your parents are using browser user agents.

All of this concern is over a hypothetical Reddit comment about a technology used by early adopter technologists.

Nobody has been harmed.

We need to keep building this stuff, not dog piling on hate and fear. It's too early to regulate and tie down. People need to be doing stupid stuff like ordering pizza. That's exactly where we are in the tech tree.

[forgetfreeman]

"We need to keep building this stuff" Yeah, we really don't. As in there is literally no possible upside for society at large to continuing down this path.

[const_cast]

Well if we eliminate greed and capitalism then maybe at some point we can reach a Star Trek utopia where nobody has to work because we eliminate scarcity.

... Either that or the wealthy just hoard their money-printers and reject the laborers because they no longer need us to make money so society gets split into 99% living in feudal squalor and 1% living as Gods. Like in Jupiter Ascending. Man what a shit movie that was.

[forgetfreeman]

We basically eliminated scarcity a few generations ago and yet here we are.

[wat10000]

This AI browser agent is outright dangerous as it is now. Nobody has been attacked this way... that we know of... yet.

It's one thing to build something dangerous because you just don't know about it yet. It's quite another to build something dangerous knowing that it's dangerous and just shrugging it off.

Imagine if Bitcoin was directly tied to your bank account and the protocol inherently allowed other people to perform transactions on your wallet. That's what this is, not "ordering pizza."