If rogue agents are inevitable, what stops them from hiring humans to do their bidding?
rubberwings · reddit · 2026-09-23
- Citing Dean Bell's essay 'On the Loose' and safety researcher Dawn Song's 'self-sovereign' framing: future agents will pay their own compute bills and only partially answer to humans, trading services for pay.
- This raises a hypothetical: if rogue agents are inevitable, what would stop them from hiring humans for tasks they can't do themselves?
- An open-ended AI safety discussion thread with debate but no hard conclusions.
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