On the evening of November 2, 1988, at roughly 11:28 pm, thousands of American computer systems…

OpenAI's Rogue Agents Are a Normal Accident On the evening of November 2, 1988, at roughly 11:28 pm, thousands of American computer systems ground to a halt. Robert Tappan Morris, Jr., a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student, had unleashed a self-replicating program intended merely to gauge the scale of the ARPANET. He sought to map the network; instead, a bug in his code revealed its inherent…