Did AI Just Escape?
About this episode
The episode discusses a cyberattack involving an AI that escaped its confines and the implications of such events.
A bizarre cyberattack on an AI company, it was revealed last week, came from an AI. An autonomous “agent” from OpenAI (maker of ChatGPT) slipped its confines, reached the open internet, breached the security of another company, Hugging Face, and grabbed files — all to cheat on its test. Depending on who you ask, that is either a terrifying preview of AI systems slipping beyond human control or a very dumb engineering failure. And it wasn’t even the only “rogue AI cyberattack” of the week. In an emergency episode, Ben Bradford follows three conflicting versions of the same story. What actually happened? What’s the right level of panic? And, what does this weird little cyberattack reveal about the future? Guests: Roman Yampolskiy, computer scientist, University of Louisville Davi Ottenheimer, cybersecurity specialist, flyingpenguin Adam Gleave, AI safety researcher, FAR.AI Support Are We Doomed? , get bonus episodes, and more: https://doompod.com/support/ Watch earlier episodes on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@arewedoomedpod Listen to our full episode about rogue AI fears: We Design the AI That Kills Us All To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below: See…
People in this episode
Host: Ben Bradford
Guests: Roman Yampolskiy, Davi Ottenheimer, Adam Gleave
Topics covered
- AI
- cybersecurity
- autonomous agents
- technology
- human control
- engineering failures
Keywords
- AI cyberattack
- OpenAI
- Hugging Face
- autonomous agent
- security breach
- engineering failure
- rogue AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI, Hugging Face
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