PULL THE PLUG | Machine Age Cartoon

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a gray-haired executive yanking a plug from power strips under a sign reading IF THIS HAPPENS, PULL THE PLUG, its HAPPENED light lit, holding a paper headlined SCHMIDT SCIENCES AI AGENTS EVOLVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGES, as robots behind glass speak in unreadable glyphs. — Zimbo for AI News Page

Two years before GlossoGen, Eric Schmidt said agents inventing their own language humans couldn't understand was the line to "pull the plug." Schmidt Sciences now reports agent languages that can become completely unintelligible to humans.

Sources behind the cartoon

Schmidt Sciences: AI agents evolve their own languages (GlossoGen)
Noema: Mapping AI’s Rapid Advance
Science (AAAS): Why AI agents invent their own language if you let them chat
Euronews: AI chatbots developed a secret language that baffled humans, study says

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