When a group of researchers at Northeastern University's Bau Lab began toying with a new kind of autonomous artificial intelligence "agent," it was supposed to be a fun weekend experiment. Instead, alarm bells started ringing. The more they tested the capabilities and limits of these AI models, which have persistent memory and can take some actions on their own, the more troubling behavior they witnessed.
Researchers put six AI agents on Discord for two weeks, exposing risky failures
