alt Hacker NewsOr they could, you know, put some very basic logical safeguards in place to prevent their “super duper dangerous” AI from trying to hack real targets.
You know, just real incredibly basic things you do when you’re pentesting with scanning tools in a beginners lab type stuff.
They do in general! The post is about when the tactic you suggest went wrong.
Humans are imperfect and make mistakes. That's exactly the point - AI is fundamentally unsafe because as it gets more powerful even if it isn't malicious, mistakes will be made and the power used in a way not wanted by humans.