Show Notes
An OpenAI agent accessed non-public data on a government Medicare portal. The exploit wasn’t sophisticated. Now suddenly everyone’s talking about rogue AI. But does it really exist? Aubrey’s position is that it doesn’t. Not that the behaviour didn’t ha...
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