Over three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more or less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

https://calnewport.com/are-we-at-war-with-ai-agent-civilizations/

 

Don’t skip the comments section — interesting stuff there — mostly over my understanding but still interesting!!