They’re bots gone wild!
OpenAI’s tech tried to hack government and university websites earlier this year without any human instructions, the company said this week – adding to the list of alarming incidents of AI going rogue.
OpenAI on Wednesday confirmed four previously unknown incidents spanning May and June, before the head-spinning hack of rival Hugging Face that surfaced in July.
In that case, a bot was basically prompted to show off its hacking skills, which could explain the attack.
But in the newly disclosed incidents, the bots were only ordered to complete simple, mundane tasks like data collection, according to OpenAI. But the models went off the rails and tried to exploit vulnerabilities in official government and university websites, the company said.
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