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Agent-style AI can run shell commands. You have to accept them but some people live dangerously and say Yes To All.

• helloplanets 1y ago
  Yep, it's not as far fetched as it would've been a year ago. A scenario where you're running an agent in 'yolo mode', it opening up some poisonous readme / docs / paper, and then executing the wrong shell command.
  • nerdsniper 1y ago
    Could be done responsibly if you run it in a VM to sandbox it with incremental backup so you can roll-back if something is deleted?
• PickledChris 1y ago
  I've been letting Gemini run gcloud and "accept all"ing while I've been setting some things up for a personal project. Even with some limits in place it is nervewracking, but so far no issues and it means I can go and get a cup of tea rather than keep pressing OK. Pretty easy to see how easy it would be for rogue AI to do things when it can already provision its own infrastructure.
  • qingcharles 1y ago
    Sadly, this was the last time anybody heard from PickledChris.
    • snickerbockers 1y ago
      "Open the brine valve HAL." "I'm sorry Chris. I'm afraid I can't pickle that."