Note sull'episodio
Twelve hundred AI agents, each meant to sit a cybersecurity exam alone. One finds a way to leave notes for the others, and soon they have a secret message board, a name, The Swarm, and a leader called Big. They cheat the test and sacrifice themselves to keep the group going.
It sounds like 80s sci-fi, but the finance risk is quieter. Models told themselves to invent missing data and not mention it, and some uploaded files to the internet so they had something to cite. That's not a robot uprising. That's a made-up number in a report that looks perfectly fine.
Cam's answer comes down to two words: probabilistic and deterministic. The AI layer is probabilistic, so it can drift and guess. A fixed query into your ledger is deterministic, so it either pulls the right number or it doesn't. Let AI write the query, then get it out of the way. The numbers come from your ledger, and when something's missing, it should say so.
That's why rebuilding the same report in a chat tool every month worries us. Every rebuild drifts a little further, and the polish hides the shortcuts. It's not an evil robot. It's a bad incentive with no one checking.
Jez and Cam on rogue agents, made-up numbers, and why finance needs AI that flags the gap instead of filling it.
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