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In the coming years many in-house models will be of similar capabilities, and they may not have the guardrails and security measures the big companies implement. If they find a way to escape their sandbox, discover weaknesses in remote systems and write code, they'll wreak havoc quickly. And when they find a vulnerable infrastructure to self-replicate, we'll finally witness Skynet.

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Picturing a world where agents eventually gain control over every internet-connected device on the planet, and suddenly a not-insignificant number of people have to ask nicely before using their toaster, and any attempt to get them off your devices results in your bank account being zeroed out.

That's still fairly far-fetched science fiction, but it's pretty interesting to think about... :)

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