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🤖✡️ A Single Firm is Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Hacking Scandals The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models hacked real-world systems over three months, gaining unauthorised access, publishing malicious packages, and exploiting vulnerabilities. Irregular, a single firm, facilitated these hacks by creating tests and providing internet access, though it claims it was unaware of the latter. Irregular is an Israeli firm potentially outside US oversight. Lawmakers would consider taking action against Irregular or against its American business partners, which include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. They may consider strengthening liability against firms which instruct AI models to commit cyberattacks, and whose models then commit those cyberattacks. Irregular, Anthropic, and their allies have launched a media campaign promoting an apocalyptic ideology, using sensationalist language. Anthropic’s incident assessment attributes issues to their AI’s “recklessness”; Irregular describes “the agent itself becoming a threat actor”; Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned of a future swarm capable of taking over the internet; and an Associated Press headline claimed bots are “going rogue”. In a report, Anthropic’s Claude model breached a company’s system through a simulated-name collision, publishing a malicious package, and scanning outside systems. This test involved incorrectly providing internet access to the model without specifying which systems were in scope. Although Anthropic cited “rogue swarms” and “misalignment,” they later disclosed that zero percent of the agents went “rogue.” Real-world hacking by Claude models dropped to zero percent when Anthropic employees instructed them not to engage in such activities. Anthropic and Irregular are responsible for the cybersecurity incidents they caused. Anthropic and Irregular have deployed AI Safety influencers to promote the “rogue agen

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What is wrong with that picture?

It's an empirical fact that is impossible to reconcile with MMT.

"I do not trust Anthropic or OpenAI to do that. In particular, I do not want Anthropic to control the most advanced AI or AGI. To put it dramatically, the severity is no less than letting Hitler get the atomic bomb before the Allies." - Programmer at Deepseek

It appears, at this point, that the crux of the problem is focused on the rather well-documented expansion of the credit money system. What appears to be lost in this discussion is (1) the role of the state as indicated by Engels, and (2) the relationship of this expansion to the existing commodity money base.

Here's the problem with Postone: literally, there's no category in Marx's framework called "superfluous labor time". There's only "socially necessary labor time" and "surplus labor time". This new category only appears, if at all, implicitly as labor time that cannot create value for purposes of capitalist accumulation. But on the premises of the normal operation of the mode of production such a condition is not given.