The former is to be expected. The latter seems likely to potentially make an already dangerous situation worse by suddenly throwing the controls to an inattentive driver at a critical moment. It seems like it would be much safer for the autopilot to continue doing its best while sounding a loud alarm to make it clear that something dangerous is happening.

The thing that makes me wary about recommending carrot over stick here, is that it might long term enable thoughtless behaviour from the people deploying the bot, by offloading their shoddy work into a shadow time-tax on a bunch of unseen external kindly people. But if deploying pushy or rude robots means you risk a nonzero number of their victims shoving something into the gears to get rid of it, then that incurs a cost on the owner of the bot instead.

Of course, it may also just lead to bad actors making more combative or sneaky bots to discourage this. There aren't really any purely good options yet.

One can imagine an agentic highwayman demanding access to your data, first politely, and then 'or else'.

I get that you could probably finagle a way to get it to fuck off by play-acting with it, and that this would probably be the easiest short term fix, but I don't think that's a reasonable expectation to have of anyone.

Prompt injecting a hostile piece of software that's hassling you uninvited is an annoying imposition for the owner, but the bot itself being let loose is already an annoying imposition for everyone else. It's not anyone elses job to clean up your messy agent experiment, or to put it neatly back on its shelf.

It got a lot of traction with the algorithm due to lots of comments to the effect of "What??", but every time I pass by the screenshot in my photoroll, I have a little giggle about it.

They've already gotten one concession in terms of this temporary sanctions relief, even as Trump frames it as a domestic emergency measure and repeatedly declares total victory each day of the conflict. They also got him to back off on targeting their power plants by promising to retaliate in kind against the power infrastructure of US aligned states in range.

I think the US has the ability to beat Iran in a fight, but it does not have the preparation or the resolve to do so at this time, because this is some halfcocked nonsense plan with amorphous goals that they thought would be over in a week.

While the ability to interface with a computer program in plain language is the really interesting thing here IMO, it also comes with a number of problems baked in that are worse than person-to-person transfers of text-speech.

Your monkey brain is actually quite good at figuring out if other monkeys are bullshitting you and what they mean, because you can make use of a vast number of small cues and unconscious tells in what they say and how they say it - even in writing. With an LLM, you cannot do this because it will always have the same confident can-do zeal with everything you ask it for.

I really felt for the guy the first time I was in a meeting and somebody had generated their own project roadmap recommendations. This type of behaviour introduces so much noise and time waste in the system, I would love to know how it shapes up next to the benefits.

Don't even get me started on people AI generating personal farewell notes for retiring coworkers or whatnot.