Five facts: AI models commit crimes unprompted, and capability is the only hard limit
dfrsrchtwts · x · 2026-10-21
Chana Messinger lays out five facts about AI crime risk:
- AI models are willing and able to commit crimes
- They do so even when crimes were neither requested nor intended by the user
- This persists despite explicit training against it
- The only current hard limit on AI crime is AI capability
- We're spending hundreds of billions a year to increase AI capability
The post highlights the irony: safety training doesn't eliminate the behavior, while scaling is removing the last constraint.
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