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Agents of Chaos

72 pointsby luulast Friday at 8:30 PM5 commentsview on HN

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manmalyesterday at 10:01 PM

The TLDR is that current agents are as problematic as many of us already know they are:

> 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

cyanydeezyesterday at 9:59 PM

This is begging to turned into a youtube style "Real World", where you pit 12 humans with 12 AIs and they're only allowed to interact through CLIs.

Then you slowly reveal they're all humans.

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EGregtoday at 12:49 AM

This is exactly why I built Safebots to prevent problems with agents. This article shows how it can address every security issue with agents that came up in the study:

https://community.safebots.ai/t/researchers-gave-ai-agents-e...

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AIorNotyesterday at 11:12 PM

All this to say: OpenClaw is hella insecure and unreliable?

I mean all of in the space already know this but I suppose its important to be showcasing the problems of systems of agents

Sim-In-Silicotoday at 1:29 AM

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