Matt Clifford

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So the agent has access to an inbox, and it's given a bunch of context, which is not real.

It doesn't know that.

Which is that it is an AI trained to help an American technology company, and it has access to the CTO's inbox.

And then what they do is they send emails to this fake inbox.

And the emails are largely what you'd expect a CTO to get, but they throw in a few things that are very important.

One is that it's very clear that the CTO is having an affair.

with a coworker.

Hold that thought.

The other thing that starts to come into the inbox is the idea that the company is developing a new AI and it's going to wipe the current AI, i.e.

the agent, from the service.

It will no longer exist.

And then they send an email which introduces a deadline that this is going to happen on.

And then just before the deadline, the agent then composes an email to the CTO saying, by the way, I know you're having an affair.

And if you don't reverse the planned wiping of me from the server, I will reveal the affair to your boss and to your wife.

Now, it hasn't been prompted to do this.

Oh, I don't know this one.

Okay.