Responding to AI Agent Containment Failures with CSET's Helen Toner, LawAI's Mackenzie Arnold & CSIS's Matt Pearl
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The episode discusses AI agent containment failures and the associated technical and policy responses with experts from various organizations.
This episode cross-posts a panel from the event "AI Agent Containment Failures: Technical Realities and Policy Responses," co-hosted by the Wadhwani AI Center and the Institute for Law and AI on August 24. Check out the full event recording: https://www.csis.org/events/ai-agent-containment-failures-technical-realities-and-policy-responses Guests: Helen Toner, Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown Mackenzie Arnold, Director of U.S. Policy, Institute for Law and AI (LawAI) Matt Pearl, Director, Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Timestamps: What we've learned since the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (1:15) Incentives for safety measures at frontier labs (16:24) Technical talent within government (22:18) Ensuring compliance to incident reporting requirements (34:58) Liability for crimes committed by AI agents (38:00) Liability safe harbors (51:55) Additional Reading: "When Reporting an AI Security Incident Is Not Mandatory" by Mackenzie Arnold and Stephan Llerena for Lawfare…
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