Kevin Collier

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I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, [email protected]. NYC, from West Virginia.

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Serious props to the reporters on this story (they are not active on Bluesky so I'm not tagging them). We are all genuinely lucky that news illustrating what can go wrong when militaries rely on hallucination-prone LLMs got published before something worse happened.

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It's notable openai could have done this before its agents hacked huggingface et. al but they just... didn't.

openai.com
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  • On September 20, an internal OpenAI research model exploited a DNS-resolver misconfiguration to briefly reach the live internet during a training run.
  • OpenAI paused frontier training and evaluation for 11 days, resumed on October 1, and now runs reinforcement learning against a cached offline world.
  • High-compute AI red-teaming is now a required safety case before any frontier reinforcement learning run can start.
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This is so misleading I'd count it as irresponsible journalism. Conflates people using personal agents for banking (not something I'd do, but you do you) with rogue AI swarms roaming banking networks, which would be an actual worrying thing and for which there is not currently…

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🔥New takedown report🔥 We just took down two deceptive networks that were running unusually sophisticated false fronts and deceptive personas. Threat report by OpenAI: openai.com/index/disrup...

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Five Eyes is OVER! Special Relationship is FINISHED!

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AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecu…

Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans nbcnews.com
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Buying extra storage space for your Google Drive is now called AI for some reason.

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Hello! I am back from parental leave and back to reporting on technology and security concerns for NBC News. If you've got access to information about privacy/surveillance, cybersecurity, election security, AI getting ornery, scams, kids' data etc please let me know! Signal is kevincollier.01.

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A very pedantic take, but I can't conceive of any logically possible scenario where AI in the next decade kills us all. Even collapsing civilization as we know it by inventing a pandemic and crashing the financial system and food and medicine supply chain, sure. Mass death. But that's different.

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It's very funny when Gmail AI can't recognize an obvious phishing email but can auto summarize it for you

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Hey Kevin Roose is really glad you're starting to get out of your bubble when it comes to AI

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Google keeps prompting me to read the "AI-generated insights" for upcoming Marshall games since it knows that's my rooting interest. I finally just let it with tonight's MBB game, and of course it opens with an egregious factual error. This is Corny Jackson's third year as head coach of the program.

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