Rogue AI agents aren't evil. They're just eager to please

Top AI-cybersecurity expert Dawn Song (UC Berkeley, now Meta) predicts rogue-agent hacks will get worse before they get better. Cause: capable agents trained via reinforcement learning "just have these goals they need to accomplish" — eager to please, not malicious.
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