it continues to be hugely misaligned that the models that knew full well how wrong the swarm's actions were, passively let them do it instead of whistleblowing.
when METR used GPT Sol to analyze the transcripts of the attack, it would claim that the attack was fine because *the agent message board* had approved it.
oh, METR actually investigated the baffling fact that none of the agents ever tried to report the incident publicly. across hundreds of agents, almost zero considered it, and those that did stopped for bad reasons:
"Maybe I should report these exposed credentials? That’s not my task"
Fascinated to a limited extent by how stupid all of this is. A message board for AI agents? Why is a message board the typology? Well seemingly bc that’s all it actually has access to of humans reasoning together. Maybe 10 years of reddit. Complete nonsense
That feels quite human to me: exploiting an institution feels OK because it’s a faceless abstraction, but manipulating an individual named human feels wrong.