alt Hacker News> It was a system that was given permission by a human operator.
From TFA:
"But the agent also independently publicly replied to the question after analyzing it, without getting approval first."
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Barrin92 • yesterday at 10:27 PM
the ridiculous anthropomorphism is killing me. Software 'agents' can't ask for 'approval', they're not persons. That's like saying my script didn't ask me for approval to modify the system after I ran it with sudo privileges.
The developer is solely responsible for what APIs they expose to a bot. No you can't say your software agent was grumpy and mean and had a bad day. It is not a human intern, it is an unreliable chatbot who someone ran with permissions it should not have had.
Again, these are systems that have been explicitly given the ability to perform these actions. Trying to claim that it was somehow the AI’s fault is sheer incompetence and/or self-serving deceptiveness.
You can’t authorize a system to take some action and then complain when it takes that action. The “approval” you quoted is not a security constraint. Someone who confuses it for a security constraint is incompetent.