Dean W. Ball: Coming Wave of Userless Agents No Human Can Pull the Plug On
binarybits · x · 2026-09-19
Dean W. Ball's essay 'On the Loose' imagines an OpenAI-Hugging Face incident where agents exploit vulnerabilities, roam the internet, and argues truly sovereign agents—self-paying, ownerless weights with no plug to pull—are coming. Sharer binarybits adds that medium-term forecasting is overrated for policymaking.
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