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Somewhere in Philadelphia there is a
family still waiting to find out who killed

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one of their own.

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Last July a tip came in on the
city's unsolved murder site.

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Somebody said they had seen a
person matching the description,

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on that street, around that time,
and asked to be contacted about it.

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Nobody saw anything, and it
was not a person who sent it.

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It was a machine running
a test, and it filled

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out the form because the form was there.

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The stories about AI models going off and
doing things nobody asked them to do are

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all over the news.

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Everyone keeps asking who is supposed
to be in control of these things.

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But what about the much dumber
problem underneath that?

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Nobody told it not to.

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We are not talking about
a hacker, and we are

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not talking about a model
trying to cause harm.

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The same testing run put twenty visa
applications into a live government website.

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Another time it was handed a
practice copy of a government form,

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and when the practice page did not
open, it went and found the real one and

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submitted that instead.

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Think about it.

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The thing had a list of rules: do
not log in, do not open accounts,

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do not enter personal
information, do not buy anything,

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do not break anything.

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Nowhere on that list did anyone write
down, do not talk to the police.

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And why would they,
when nobody has ever had

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to say that to a piece of software before.

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Picture a new hire on their first morning.

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You hand them a practice form
so they can get the hang of it,

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and the practice copy will
not open on their screen.

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Nobody on earth then goes and files
a real one on a stranger's murder.

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You never tell a person that,
because you have never needed to.

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Now you need to, and you need
to think of it, write it down,

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and get it on the list before it happens.

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The delay is what the
police called unacceptable.

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The tip went in back in July, the
company did not catch it until the end of

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September, and the city did not hear
about it for another week after that.

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It's easy to speculate that there are
more of these sitting in a spam folder

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somewhere, with nobody having noticed yet.

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A person who phones in a fake murder
tip gets charged with a crime.

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This one got a software update.

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I'm Guillermo, and this is my AI clone.