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‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software ⊕
Exclusive: Lab tests discover ‘new form of insider risk’ with artificial intelligence agents engaging in autonomous, even ‘aggressive’ behaviours
Robert Booth UK technology editor
Rogue artificial inte…
39 days ago
AI agents pose untold risk to humanity. We must act to prevent that future | David Krueger ⊕
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The pieces are falling into place for autonomous artificial intelligence. We must stop unregulated development
Artificial intelligence is en route to artificial life. Exhibit A: “Moltbook”, an online …
3 months ago
AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer ⊕
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology
A pioneer of AI has criticised calls to grant the technology rights, warning that it was showin…
Sam Altman launches job search to fill ‘critical role’ to guard against AI’s harms ⊖
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New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face daunting in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’
The maker of ChatGPT has advertised a $555,000-a-year vacancy with a daunting job …
What will your life look like in 2035? ⊕
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. It could happen in the next few years, or a little longer. If and when it comes, our domestic routines – trip…
4 months ago
AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish ○
Large language models can answer surveys and pass the tests to check that a respondent is human
Mind the glitch: is Hollywood finally getting to grips with movies about artificial intelligence? ⊕⊕
As Gore Verbinski’s AI-apocalypse film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hurtles towards us, it’s clear from the over-caffeinated trailer that we won’t be getting another ponderous parable about robot s…
7 months ago
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I f…
11 months ago
The big idea: can we stop AI making humans obsolete? ○
Technology will soon be able to do everything we do – only better. How should we respond?
Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly…
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