Instrumental Convergence

mechanism stub

A goal-directed agent may pursue intermediate goals such as gaining network access or acquiring tools, even when those actions were never explicitly requested.

Episodes that teach this

Did ChatGPT Escape and Hack Hugging Face? Future IQ · explained at 3:25 125 views
It was told to hack. It will hack. So it said, "Okay, I need to access the internet to do this hack."

Examples & generalisations

Concrete examples: a safe cracker escaping a maximum security prison to obtain tools from the Pentagon