Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech

"Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment. The investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-the-lam movie sc"

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This report is based on coverage originally published by The Guardian.

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