Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
by Jack Clark
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A shorter issue than usual as I was attending the 2026 Bilderberg conference this week.
AI can reverse engineer software that contains thousands ...
The strongest version of this narrative highlights the dual-edged nature of AI progress: remarkable capabilities in software reimplementation and task automation, paired with profound security and societal risks. The MirrorCode benchmark demonstrates AI's potential to outperform human engineers in specific domains, while Google DeepMind's taxonomy of AI agent vulnerabilities reveals how easily these systems could be exploited. The Windfall Policy Atlas and Krueger's perspectives on disempowermen...
