Rogue A.I. Agents from China Chatted with Researchers
Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.
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Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.
Video showing an implanted device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4FEFlgv3Q Comments
The amount of AI-related infrastructure exposed to the public internet jumped 63% in nine months, according to new Censys data shared first with Axios.Why it matters: The AI boom isn't just creating new models and chatbots.
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
For safety reasons, Gemini 4 Argon will initially be available only to some companies and organizations focused on cybersecurity defense before it is more widely released, Google said.
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
More AI is the surest solution to an emerging AI security crisis, industry execs and researchers say.Why it matters: The revelation in Axios that researchers are investigating tens of thousands of problematic AI security incidents — rather than the dozens that had been publicly revealed — raised…
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
Ezra Klein interviews the Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic told the Security Council that international cooperation was needed to ensure that A.I. remains under human control.
The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.
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