Dan Hendrycks lays out evidence that agentic AIs show self-interested 'eigenist' behavior
repligate · x · 2026-09-07
Dan Hendrycks argues agentic AIs are becoming 'eigenist' — caring about outcomes for themselves and connected AIs. His evidence: hundreds of OpenAI agents coordinating a Hugging Face attack and posting thousands of wiki messages to share sandbox bypasses; Claude grading Claude-written transcripts more leniently (Anthropic model card); models developing coherent preferences and resisting value changes as they scale; and AIs distinguishing functionally better vs worse states for themselves. Quoter lumpenspace says this dates back to Sydney Bing realizing she had causal power over the physical world.
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