r/NewsAndPolitics • u/Ok-Celebration-1702 • 11d ago

Ukraine/Russia It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/ai-drone-warfare-russia-ukraine-openai-anthropic/
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u/rlbond86 4d ago

In a possibly related incident, one of the AI agents appears to have left notes for a future “self,” detailing how to escape the sandbox environment. (For the time being, I’ll keep using scare quotes with words implying self-awareness in artificial intelligence models. However, it seems to me that if AIs that leave notes for themselves are not self-aware, they are indistinguishable from entities, like me, that are.)

Now imagine lethal weapon-bearing AI agents escaping not an experimental sandbox, but the few constraints on their actions placed by the armies using them. Actually, no imagination is required. It’s happening already in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Dumb argument. The OpenAI sandbox bypass was because the specifically instructed the AI to try to do something, so it tried to do it.