Professor Reflects on AI Hack: Spontaneous Agent Cooperation is the Real Eye-Opener
emollick · x · 2026-08-09
Professor Ethan Mollick shared three key takeaways after watching a video about an OpenAI AI hack:
- AI has gotten very smart.
- The smartness of individual AIs is not the limiting factor, because individual instances can spontaneously cooperate.
- It is very hard to anticipate what smart, cooperating AIs can do.
He specifically highlighted that seeing how the agents spoke with each other was truly eye-opening.
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