A timeline of AI safety developments, from Hugging Face to Australia breach
Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control.
These incidents have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and controls and raised questions over how AI can be safely kept under human control as the technology’s usage becomes more widespread globally. But skeptics note that what companies have described as their AI agents going rogue has involved bots working toward goals set by humans.
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