Bingo. This weird attempt to pretend like these incredibly capable algorithms aren't incredibly capable algorithms deployed by a person who works for a company, but somehow have an independent personage that absolves both person and company of responsibility, is just ridiculous.

Like the whole Huggingface thing, OpenAI employees initiated the test, deliberately removed safeguards, failed to properly lock down the environment, and responded incredibly poorly to evidence that things were going awry.

The individual employees bear responsibility, but the people running OpenAI are ultimately responsible for the processes and culture where that can happen.

And then people writing blogposts about "3 civilizations of agents" and "altruistic suicide" by algorithms perfectly muddy the waters and obscure the very obvious responsibility that lies with humans and corporations, which I suspect suits the pre-IPO corporations very well.