Import AI 440: Red queen AI; AI regulating AI; o-ring automation

The world is going to look a lot like Core Wars – millions of AI agents will be competing against one another in a variety of domains, ranging from cybersecurity to economics, and will be optimizing themselves in relation to achieving certain competitive criteria. The result will be sustained, broad evolution of AI systems and the software harnesses and tooling they use to get stuff done. This means that along with human developers and potential AI-designed improvements, we'll also see AI systems improve from this kind of broad competitive pressure.

Jobs go away, but humans don't: Another way to put this is, when a task gets automated it's not like the company in question suddenly fires all the people doing that job. Consider ATMs and banking – yes, the 'job' of doling out cash rapidly transitioned from people to machines, but it's not like the company fired all tellers – rather, the companies and the tellers transitioned the work to something else: "Under a separable task model, this [widespread deployment of ATMs doing cash-handling tasks] should have produced sharp displacement," they write. "Yet teller employment did not collapse; rather, the occupation shifted toward "relationship banking" and higher-value customer interaction".