Right but it should be. If you log in to your banking website at a public terminal and then wander away (without logging out), someone else can make transactions in your name because the session is still authorized.
By the way, this works for any website. If you tell a tool-calling AI agent to pop open a browser and automate some stuff for you, it will do it. It will ask you to login first, and then it will do who-knows-what..
The step where you logged in authorized it to do whatever it wants.
Yeah, that activity was authorized. You're using "unauthorized" as if it means "unwelcome" I think, which puts you in confused banker territory.
The part where they were given access to make the transactions was actually the authorization. Without it, the bank would have rightly thrown a 403.
If they're "operating inside" user's accounts, they're authorized. Does someone need to explain to banks what authorized means?
As much as I'm generally inclined to trust SO readership's\ expertise on contagious shit, I would still somehow feel more comfortable if we can shoot junk like this into the sun when shit goes sideways.
Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
Sure, but remember Covid '19? Imagine if that Wuhan bat lab had been in space. 'Nuff said.
They should be required to do experiments like this in space. So they can shoot it into the sun if something goes wrong.
You only need two beanie babies, folks.
The Art of the Deal, baby!
Charles Schwab doesn't want their idiot users to be able to grant AI permission to accidentally wipe them out financially. That makes sense, but I think I may have a solution:
When an agent does something that looks dodgy, just pop up a little box that says "Are you sure?". And if they click yes, pop up another little box that says "Are you really sure?". I figure by the time they're really really really really sure, there've probably thought it over enough.
It's called playwright and it's one of the most popular agent skills. I use it all the time for tedious forms, big whoop.
Those are side hustles. Gigs at the most.
I'll be relaxing on my automated fief, enjoying lovely farm-to-table meals. I don't mind kicking a basket of produce up to the "Epstein Class" because I have everything I need.
It sure beats the hell out of Skynet (although blue pill The Matrix might be a step up, I'd have to think about it).
It's always about going back to feudalism.
It would be closer to sharecropping, and with agricultural robots that honestly sounds like one of the more optimistic dystopias.
Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be gone in two years. He was half right. -- Dennis Ritchie
