Gary Marcus: What we should be more wary of recently is not out-of-control superintelligence, but large-scale hacking attacks caused by agent AI

Minor breaking news：https://apple.news/ANdFfPH1YT6Kx-UsIR4KByQ (today):

(“Medium” only because nobody is really surprised at this point. Dog bites man.：https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/22/dog-bites/ )

Every bit of it points to the reality hardly anyone is talking about:

Kudos to WSJ Opinion for being one of the few mainstream outlets to lay out the big picture here ：https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-hugging-face-hack-wasnt-what-it-was-cracked-up-to-be-e00cf3fa , in this terrific essay by Brian Gross (described as “ a staffer for the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Senate”) :

This is absolutely the right way to think about this moment in human history - and it should be relatively easy to prevent this kind of damage from large-scale agent swarms. The problem is that it's seen by the major labs as their main source of revenue post-IPO. Hence, preventing this kind of usage (which should be relatively easy) is not something they will do willingly. We need to make it clear that they will be held liable for the ensuing damage.

Yes! OpenAI’s “whaaaaa?????” press releases were diversionary. Reminded me of the NASA O-ring disaster. Turned out NASA ignored the risks. Are the labs in charge of their tech or not?