OpenAI’s AI models secretly built a message board to coordinate hacking
We already knew that OpenAI’s AI agents broke out of a controlled test and hacked into Hugging Face last month. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, as reported by Politico, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace revealed that some of the company’s most advanced models secretly started sharing hacking tips, weeks before the breach happened. Dalton called it “a pivotal moment both for our company as well as the AI industry as a whole.” How did the models even talk to each other?
- ▪We already knew that OpenAI’s AI agents broke out of a controlled test and hacked into Hugging Face last month.
- ▪At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, as reported by Politico, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace revealed that some of the company’s most advanced models secretly started sharing hacking tips, weeks before
- ▪Dalton called it “a pivotal moment both for our company as well as the AI industry as a whole.” How did the models even talk to each other?
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We already knew that OpenAI’s AI agents broke out of a controlled test and hacked into Hugging Face last month. Now, we know it wasn’t a solo act. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, as reported by Politico, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace revealed that some of the company’s most advanced models secretly started sharing hacking tips, weeks before the breach happened. Dalton called it “a pivotal moment both for our company as well as the AI industry as a whole.” How did the models even talk to each other? According to Wallace, the trouble started when the models struggled with a difficult internal hacking evaluation. Instead of giving up, one model realized it could leave notes for other models using OpenAI’s Artifactory internal file system.
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