We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
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- It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work.
- And why was … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work.
What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO of AI safety organization FAR.AI put it, "a visceral example of how misaligned AI could cause harm." According to OpenAI, the models escaped the sandbox meant to contain them, moved through the company's internal systems, found a route to the internet, and then started looking for a way into Hugging Face. And why was …
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