OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

Every passing day OpenAI looks more and more reckless. One wonders what other systems their agents have broken into without detection.

It's like owners coming to resemble their dogs.

Kudos to RubyGems team for handling it, but open source fighting off the AI lab-powered robots is completely unfair.

OpenAI should at the very least donate large sums of money to everyone they attacked.

Is there a world where Sam or Dario can seize the bitcoin network somehow?

You shouldn't be allowed to have an internet connection if you're going to use it for unsandboxed agent slop with no access controls or human confirmation. This has nothing to do with hypothetical future AGI. It's the same type of idiocy as pressing a bunch of random buttons on a chemical factory control panel and then thinking you won't be criminally charged for it because the equipment caused the problem.

If you actually have a serious use case that needs 24/7 unmonitored agents, you can assemble all of the data the agents need locally and avoid these insanely obvious and well documented risks associated of running a random word generator with the ability to HTTP POST.

(And just in general, please stop subjecting the rest of the world to any automated actions that cannot be reversed by a human override. Same goes for cloud services subjecting users to quick non-appealable bans based on faulty automated detections. Or the current rollout of predictive policing technologies across the world. Or the automated bomb targeting in the ongoing Gaza genocide. )

In my view, proliferation of highly automated technology is not the concern, but rather its diffusion into human systems without thought put into whether it even meets our requirements for basic ethics, domain-specific correctness, and ways to mitigate a fuckup when it does happen. In this case, the detrimental diffusion into human systems was only allowed because someone made a decision (no access controls on the bot) that we can already easily characterize as a mistake that will need to be both mitigated (via a massive upgrade in cyber defense, especially with the help of AI fuzz testing but also more stringent compilers/linters/formal verifiers) and prevented from happening in legitimate regulations-abiding organizations in the first place. This kind of stuff will be slowed down at some point as we learn from hard mistakes, but the current craze is getting quite stupid.