alt Hacker NewsThat's nice and all, but the topic under discussion is how the major LLM manufacturers removed the safeties from their computer-attacking tools and tested those tools on a network with Internet access.
This might have gone okay if they weren't testing to see how well the tools attack computers, but, well, that's what they were testing at the time, so they ended up doing stuff that would get you or I time in Federal prison if we did it with tools we deployed.
No. The topic under discussion is that AI is a dangerous technology.
If all it takes for a - sandboxed to prevent accidents - AI to go and stage an elaborate attack first against its own company's infrastructure, and then against another company is "we disabled the cyber classifer" and "we gave it an exploitation ability eval"?
AI is a dangerous technology.