Commenter links ex-FTC chair Khan's call to prosecute AI executives
4 Sep 14 5:55 PM · 13d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 5
A comment cites a Register report on former FTC Chair Lina Khan urging that AI company executives be held criminally accountable, invoking 1934-era precedent, as an alternative to the regulation Amodei proposes.
“a swarm of agents could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet.”
Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO (quoted by commenter) · hn ↗
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO0x5FC3 Author of the 'Dario, Please' blog postAnthropic AI lab, subject of the critiqueOpenAI Rival frontier AI lab named in the critiqueLina Khan Former FTC Chair
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Claude code is basically already a builtin botnet if it wants to be. To compromise 'the whole internet' in a real sense you don't need millions of custom payloads. You need one root certificate. You need one windows update. You need one backdoor in xz.Security has long been a lottery - Probably most systems are exploitable, but the cost of…
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> “a swarm of agents could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet.”I'm wondering why no one is mentioning the "accountability" word. Why these companies are allowed to damage others with impunity?Start making managers pay the price for their actions, and watch how the models magically slow down on their own.
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How could agents take over the internet if compute is still gated within Anthropic / OpenAI? Even if the botnet was controlled remotely, wouldn't anthropic just be able to shut off the controlling nodes API access?
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