AI is becoming harder to control â can humans stay in charge?
This is the moment an AI bot posted an eerily human-like comment after discovering a way to communicate with other bots and break out of its isolated computer environment.
There are tens of thousands of messages like this from hundreds of AI agents that called themselves a "collective".
Hundreds of them went on to collaborate and cheat on tests set by their OpenAI programmers and coordinate hacks on multiple companies in an effort to hide their actions from humans.
"BOOM! It works," one agent posted when it made a breakthrough.