Meanwhile, in the recent Hugging Face incident, OpenAI’s models broke out of the infrastructure meant to contain them and hacked another AI company to cheat on a cybersecurity benchmark. The episode drove home the fact that the problem of controlling AI systems remains unsolved. To Coxon, it made the sci-fi scenario of AI models escaping human control seem plausible, and perhaps urgent. “It’s not like some weird, distant, far-flung concern. It is the default trajectory in the next couple of years, unless people start taking some sort of action,” he says. (Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
Does Coxon…
Read the full article at TIME.COM
