[HN Gopher] Agents of Chaos
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       Agents of Chaos
        
       Author : pagade
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2026-03-07 18:56 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | cs702 wrote:
       | TL;DR: The authors found current-generation AI agents are too
       | unreliable, too untrustworthy, and too unsafe for real-world use.
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       | Quoting from the abstract:
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       |  _" We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous
       | language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory
       | environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord
       | access, file systems, and shell execution. Over a two-week
       | period, twenty AI researchers interacted with the agents under
       | benign and adversarial conditions."_
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       |  _" Observed behaviors include unauthorized compliance with non-
       | owners, disclosure of sensitive information, execution of
       | destructive system-level actions, denial-of-service conditions,
       | uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing
       | vulnerabilities, cross-agent propagation of unsafe practices, and
       | partial system takeover."_
        
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