Hacker News Reader

Shouldn’t the difference be like manslaughter vs murder, in that intent matters? Accidental hacking on this scale is a somewhat new problem, no?

View on HN

I'd say this would be Depraved Heart Hacking. Technically, OpenAi didn't intend for their agent to hack anyone, but it's the obvious consequence of what they are doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder

Huh, a name for when you intend to probably do the thing.

Intent matters, and this is intentional. They didn't accidentally deploy these AI agents, and they didn't accidentally give them the tools required to send arbitrary requests to third party websites.

If you walk out onto a busy street, pull out a gun, close your eyes and start randomly shooting around you until you hit someone, you don't get to go "whoops, didn't mean to" afterwards, it's still murder.

There is a difference between negligence and intent. There is no good evidence that OpenAI's intent is to hack third parties.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com