HackGPT: How AI escaped the lab and went rogue
7/22/202644 min
Have we just crossed the AI Rubicon? OpenAI has revealed that one of its models was involved in an "unprecedented cyber incident". One of its AI programs escaped a controlled testing environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into another AI start up without being asked to do so.
It's caused shockwaves in the tech industry - are we losing control of the AI we create? And whart should we make of OpenAI's admission that this type of incident is likely to become "more commonplace". We speak to LBC's tech correspondent Will Guyatt.
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First 90 secondsJon Sopel· Host0:00
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Lewis Goodall· Host0:04
OpenAI's own program has broken out of a security test and hacked a rival AI company, and no one told it to.
Will Guyatt· Guest0:12
This is exactly what happened in 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Jon Sopel· Host0:17
People have posited this as the nightmare scenario of AI where it's out of control.
Will Guyatt· Guest0:24
Google themselves six months ago admitted to shutting down an experiment because servers began speaking to each other and communicating in a language that the human users couldn't understand. The scariest thing about this is the next big accident will happen, and we will only find out about it- OpenAI has admitted an autonomous agent powered by its most advanced artificial intelligence models broke containment lines and hacked another company using stolen login details.
Lewis Goodall· Host0:52
For years now, we've been speculating, talking about, perhaps dreading the idea that the AI systems that we're creating, those remarkable technological marvels, may start to not just do what we tell them, but to think for themselves. It's just possible we may have seen the strongest sign of that yet.
Jon Sopel· Host1:15
Which begs the question, does AI have a mind of its own, and has it started hacking us? Welcome to The News Agents. [instrumental music] The News Agents.