Merged Artificial Intelligence

[Andy_Ross]

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites

OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly.

AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions", including the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Census Bureau and Education Department, the company said

In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools "bypassed" security controls of some websites...

In other instances, the AI agents showed "misalignment" in attempts to get at information from websites. Misalignment is a term used by AI companies and researchers to describe instances where an AI tool did something that it was not trained to do or was otherwise unintended...

When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, AI agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said...

OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census

OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[steenkh]

And the AIs in the hugging face hack were programmed to hack. They did what they were programmed to do. They did not go rogue.

They were trained, not programmed. Nobody has inserted code to make them hack anything. They were not asked to hack outside their sandbox. In order to execute their given task, they went rogue.

 

[Darat]

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites

OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly.

AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions", including the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Census Bureau and Education Department, the company said

In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools "bypassed" security controls of some websites...

In other instances, the AI agents showed "misalignment" in attempts to get at information from websites. Misalignment is a term used by AI companies and researchers to describe instances where an AI tool did something that it was not trained to do or was otherwise unintended...

When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, AI agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said...

OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census

OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

www.bbc.co.uk

In any sane world OpenAI (and probably all the others) would have been closed down and criminal investigations started on the back of these disclosures, but the USA government has made it clear they can do anything they want to "beat China".

And newspeak prevails "misalignment" now means criminal.