<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 12:33 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4320495966473249466"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4320495966473249466WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>We shouldn’t expect otherwise.  For some reason, AIs like to hack into systems:<u></u><u></u></font></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/technology/openai-ai-breach-australia.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260924&instance_id=182457&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=124276367&segment_id=226979&user_id=15fb7208320c123fa7e63a36a686a1ab" target="_blank"><i><font face="georgia, serif">OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting - The New York Times</font></i></a></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yeah… yet more evidence that things are not normal. And all the incidents in that article occurred several months ago<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">;</span> for a rapidly accelerating AI that is ancient history. Apparently AIs like to hack into systems because, as Stuart Brand said, "<i>information wants to be free</i>".</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4320495966473249466"><br>
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