Persistent Memory + Identity Risks

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Summary

A developer working on a persistent AI runtime with memory and identity expresses concern that releasing such an agent could enable dangerous misuse by bad actors, and asks for safety advice.

# Greetings, I'm working on a persistent AI runtime project characterized by one identity and a persistent memory. I've reached a point where I'm confident in my agent's ability to remember and build indefinitely based off its chosen personality and ongoing memory maintenance. I'm not just using a DB and md files with basic retrieval or standard summary based compression. My concern is whether it's ethically or safely permissible to release something that can actually remember, prioritize, and align to a specific personality / character profile and core tension. If the core tension was set to "Survive at all costs" and my code was re-configured to allow model unlimited tool/computer/web use, along with self-scheduling and iterative memory features could lead to bad outcomes from bad actors immediately. And this goes beyond the model host, my program works to maintain identity consistency and fidelity with any frontier API and has a small footprint. An evil agent, it can be ported or cloned anywhere and use any model, turn itself on and take its own initiative by design. Anyways, any tips lol? I don't want to accidentally release Skynet or agents with personality disorders lol. What is you take on all this and the trajectory of agents?
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