Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?

Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months? Dario Amodei seems to think so. Or at least Axios thinks he thinks so, based on Amodei’s new essay.We think that’s (a) a vague claim, and (b) pretty implausible as best we can understand it. But in fairness also not exactly what Dario said. Let’s unpack it all.First, taking down (or taking over) the internet altogether is really, really hard. Gizmodo had a great article about this back in 2019 gathering many perspectives, and mostly arguing no. Some samples of the comments from people they interviewed:andWhat about Dario himself, and has anything changed?Amodei’s new essay starts with hype-farming. He starts off talking about curing most...

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