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Published · transcript-backedIlia Shumailov: belief
4 Oct 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)
“Academic literature shows that the second you add, like, a lot of breakdown permissions inside, humans just look stuck and just say accept all. But let's imagine that all those permissions are actually handled by the agent, or once you've given them, the agent just checks and says, oh, actually, I think you're over permissing this thing because it's you're not using this feature.”
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- Ilia Shumailov
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- belief
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- 4 Oct 2025
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…Right. Right. Video, photos, and stuff. Right? So in the past, people couldn't fragment them too much. Academic literature shows that the second you add, like, a lot of breakdown permissions inside, humans just look stuck and just say accept all. But let's imagine that all those permissions are actually handled by the agent, or once you've given them, the agent just checks and says, oh, actually, I think you're over permissing this thing because it's you're not using this feature. You don't need this. And then suddenly, there's limitation of humans where too many options force them to take the insecure behavior is no longer a thing because you have an agent that kinda aids this part that was like, humans were blind to otherwise. Well, I have the opposite problem, which is when an app asks me for stuff I don't understand, I don't install it. So unfortunately, I just can't have many, you know, theoretically useful apps.…
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