Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability (opens in new tab)

>A new paper from researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and University of California Riverside found that AI agents with access to a computer, or computer-use agents (CUAs), will often take weird and dangerous actions in an attempt to complete a task for a human user. The paper, titled Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness, compared these AI agents to Mr. Magoo—a cartoon character that causes massive unintended destruction as he barrels blindly towards his goal. > >The ...