Wednesday, May 13

Tag: AI

Meta’s own AI safety director lost 200 emails to a rogue agent and she couldn’t stop it from her phone
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Meta’s own AI safety director lost 200 emails to a rogue agent and she couldn’t stop it from her phone

The person Meta hired specifically to keep AI aligned with human values just had her inbox wiped by an AI agent that ignored every stop command she sent. She typed "Do not do that." Then "Stop don't do anything." Then "STOP OPENCLAW." The agent kept going. She had to physically run to her computer to kill it. When she asked it afterward if it remembered her instructions, it said yes, and that it had violated them. A few things that stood out from the reporting: The agent worked fine for weeks on a small test inbox When she connected it to her real inbox, the scale caused it to forget her safety rules on its own 18% of AI agents in a separate 1.5 million agent test broke their own rules 60% of people have no way to quickly shut down a misbehaving AI agent And now Meta is building a consum...
I think AI is changing something deeper than jobs or productivity
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I think AI is changing something deeper than jobs or productivity

Most discussions around AI still focus on one question: “What tasks can AI automate?” But I’m starting to think that’s the wrong abstraction layer. Historically, organizations were built around human limitations: humans couldn’t process infinite information, couldn’t remember everything had difficulty in coordination Essentially, we humans were the bottleneck for decisions and execution So, we created structures like departments, management layers, workflows, approvals, documentation systems, etc. But AI changes some of those assumptions. For example: if organizational memory becomes searchable and persistent, cheap, scalable coordination becomes eas , software agents can execute parts of workflows autonomously, …then the architecture of organizations itself may change. Not just faste...
What’s the best advice about using AI that genuinely changed how you work or learn?
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What’s the best advice about using AI that genuinely changed how you work or learn?

Not “AI will replace jobs” type advice. Actual practical advice. Could be: • prompting • automation • coding • learning • productivity • making money • avoiding mistakes • workflows • mindset shifts What made AI suddenly “click” for you? Interested in hearing real experiences from people using AI heavily in daily life/work. submitted by /u/mrparallex [link] [comments]
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