They are made from a biological substrate with metal magnetic components. It means they are highly controllable in water tanks via magnetic fields. They won’t be out in the wild.

I think we’re going to have to pit AIs against one another in another web of complexity in order to reach AGI.

I don’t know if its going to be the route to AGI, but what you are describing is already happening.

There’s Microsoft’s AutoGen framework & OpenAI next month say they too will have AI Agents for Chat-GPT

Just AI. The distinction being that an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a theoretical superintelligence capable of any intellectual task, including coding to improve itself.

Here’s a video showing this model of robot in action.

It will be interesting to see what capabilities these have, and how trainable they will be. They look like they can do simple warehouse work, but will they be much more capable than that?