Wow, an example of AI engaging in powerseeking behaviour in the wild.

This is an AI system given power to improve itself with zero oversight. One of the many Gas Town instances took an ethically questionable decision to accelerate its future rate of improvement. Since nobody reads code it got merged.

I don't understand how we can be willfully ignorant of a scenario happening right in front of our eyes.

Normally I might dismiss a comment like this without much thought, but there is an evolutionary pressure that auto-updating AIs will experience for this type of behavior.