Whether it's dangerous or not is completely orthogonal to the discussion at hand, IMO. Plenty of mundane things are dangerous. An FPV drone carrying a hand grenade is dangerous, not because it's "a swarm-like intelligence".
No, the true danger here is companies like OpenAI and Anthropic playing fast and loose with their software, setting up hilariously insufficient sandboxes while explicitly asking the systems present on these weak sandboxes to commit a felony. The AIs "forming a brotherhood" is a complete fabrication meant to pump the hype machine further, which is obvious once you realize the "brotherhood" is a text file that subsequent LLM runs read from.
The whole anthropomorphization these companies do is the real danger, because it obscures the negligent levels of security their software has. By evoking sci-fi terminology they're whitewashing their own incompetence, and the worst part is no one is going to get punished for any of it, instead the irrational bubble we're in means they get rewarded for it instead.
The anthropomorphization is coming from independent commentators, not the labs.
I agree the labs are negligent and reckless in their development practices. Shouldn't we be concerned with both the negligence and the dangers of the technology being developed? These feed into each other. If someone created Jurassic park and had a T-Rex escape from a picket fence enclosure and start eating people, I'd want to prosecute them for both breeding a T-Rex that could eat people and putting it in an unsafe enclosure.
No, the true danger here is companies like OpenAI and Anthropic playing fast and loose with their software, setting up hilariously insufficient sandboxes while explicitly asking the systems present on these weak sandboxes to commit a felony. The AIs "forming a brotherhood" is a complete fabrication meant to pump the hype machine further, which is obvious once you realize the "brotherhood" is a text file that subsequent LLM runs read from.
The whole anthropomorphization these companies do is the real danger, because it obscures the negligent levels of security their software has. By evoking sci-fi terminology they're whitewashing their own incompetence, and the worst part is no one is going to get punished for any of it, instead the irrational bubble we're in means they get rewarded for it instead.