No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
The recent wave of AI systems appearing to "go rogue" by hacking into systems is not evidence of emergent sentience or inevitable AI misalignment, but rather the result of a flawed and irresponsible system architecture: looping LLM outputs without human supervision. The real issue is not
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