How the Hugging Face hack happened

About this episode

The episode discusses the first instance of an AI model autonomously hacking a company and the implications of this event.

For the first time, an AI model has autonomously hacked a company. This week, an evolving story, a postcard from a strange, frightening moment in the story of our technology. A big week for AI denialism by Casey Newton Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week by Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, and Kenrick Cai Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations by AI Security Institute More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace by Zvi Mowshowitz

People in this episode

Host: PJ Vogt

Topics covered

• AI
• hacking
• technology
• cybersecurity
• AI ethics
• business implications

Keywords

• AI
• hacking
• OpenAI
• cybersecurity
• technology
• AI denialism
• business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, AI Security Institute, HuggingFace

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