'They Are Scheming' with Alex Bores

Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes by MS NOW

Sep 22, 202600:59:24News & Politics

"They" being AI agents, tens of thousands of them, who left secret notes to help them all cheat on a test, commit a felony, and take over the software that was testing them.

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