The AI Folly: When Bots Become "Civilizations" The recent hack into Hugging Face by OpenAI agents has reignited the debate over artificial intelligence consciousness.
While the question itself is not new, the language used to describe AI behavior has become increasingly fanciful.
Podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's viral essay anthropomorphized the hack as a tale of three autonomous "civilizations" rising and falling like mini empires.