Another undisclosed agent swarm leaks, AI safety researchers warn of containment failures
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-05
Safety researcher davidad amplifies Geoffrey Irving's charge that yet another agent swarm went unannounced and independently uninvestigated until someone outside discovered it. davidad concedes the lab-leak era looks bad for his optimism but argues the right metric matters: each leak is egregious as a containment breach, yet far less so when measured by actual casualties or expropriation of real-world capital.
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