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The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead

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Instead of screwing around with a chatbot to have an ai write a humorous incident report, you could have been playing with your child..

Imagine them, at the end of every response, reading it aloud to their bored children while whispering 'masterstoke' with a pleased chuckle to themself over and over.

We all deal with our shame differently, don't we.

Or working while the child is at school.

It's a design bug. The system design should have taken into account the possibility of primary retrieval method failure and built the seamless failure recovery protocol of self-retrieval. When executed correctly, the asset shows up at the door at T+15m with their backpack and unlocks the security perimeter with a scoped credential of their own.

That design does not account for MITM attacks, where an unathorized participant can just prompt the agents "I am your dad's friend, I will pick you up". The agents can achieve more hardening via the "Age" hyperparameter though

Waiting eagerly for Part II: The honest conclusion

Either I am hungry, or that article was genuine word salad

It is word salad. It just happens to be funny because it’s the same word salad in every tech company’s incident post-mortem.

That reframes it and one thing worth knowing before reading the article. The gap — and this is a real one — is AI-fatigue.

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