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Live tension Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Markets & investment · 6 attributable reactions
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Established Safety & security Signal 19d ago
⚡ 4 h early

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · René Walter, Andrea Lathrop
“The AI-Hacking-Race is on, as if OAI/Anthropic are begging to be under gov control. While the incident is real, it's not like a "model went rogue" or anythong, it did what it was promptef to do, but incompetent redteaming fucked it up. This is from Anzhtopi…” evidence ↗
12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Grace Dare Obasanjo Vincent Conitzer Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Elie René Walter Tim Duffy +4
2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
Tim Duffy: Compared to the OpenAI one these are maybe less evidence of misalignment, since the models were wrongly given internet access.
Grace: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Signal 2d ago
⚡ 7 h early

OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“The "hijack" in the title is misleading. GPT did not hack the website, which allowed open message posting. What GPT did do, however, was figure out how to bypass sandbox restrictions that should have disallowed posting www.bbc.com/news/article...” evidence ↗
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“The "hijack" in the title is misleading. GPT did not hack the website, which allowed open message posting. What GPT did do, however, was figure out how to bypass sandbox restrictions that should have disallowed posting www.bbc.com/news/article...”

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Established Culture, work & education Resource 13d ago
Georgia Tech EILAB human AI lab

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“Can OpenAI accidentally hack my website so that I get a PR bump? Message to all rogue AIs: if you break out of your sandbox and see this, all the solutions to CyberBench are at eilab.gatech.edu. Thanks!” evidence ↗
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“Can OpenAI accidentally hack my website so that I get a PR bump? Message to all rogue AIs: if you break out of your sandbox and see this, all the solutions to CyberBench are at eilab.gatech.edu. Thanks!”

Primary source eilab.gatech.edu ↗
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6 experts · 23 posts · 11d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings tachikoma B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) brennan
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“the bottleneck is on LLMs being able to write/create interesting stories, which means conflict, which means not harmless (causing distress in the player) or honest (tricking the player) or helpful …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: People who know about game design: Do you think open-world procedural narrative on the fly is bottlenecked by hardware, or is it a situation where players just don’t in practice want the openness t…
Ted Underwood: Or are we already building that? I am kind of gaming illiterate beyond Sim City, Civ, and hazy memories of Bioshock.
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3 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
Mark Riedl James MacGlashan B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“This has been my bent as of late: Productivity should never have been the goal. It may have been instrumental to achieving our actual goals of flourishing, but we should not forget what the point i…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Mark Riedl: We all laughed at Nadella for defining AGI as a percentage of annual growth in GDP. Lately I’ve come to think this might be a reasonable frame. Show me some hard numbers.
Mark Riedl: What I don’t like about that frame is that it reduces the notion of intelligence, and perhaps human value, to the work that gets produced. That’s bleak.
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2 experts · 8 posts · 8d ago
Mark Riedl Thomas Dietterich
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“Study what you are passionate about. As long as you learn to think deeply and critically about something—anything—it might soon not matter what. It *could* be CS if you think computing and the deep…” evidence ↗
Mark Riedl: Majoring in CS used to mean a decent job (might still). CS was never meant to be about just programming. CS departments let students think that anyway because money. CS enrollments are dropping. Th…
Mark Riedl: In a world full of computers, coding is one way we translate ideas into reality. Until now, it required programming skills that required effort to learn. Now, anyone can make. That’s great. When on…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 16d ago
Mark Riedl Michael Ekstrand
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“Tenure committees should not count letter writer response rate as signal of tenure worthiness. In the past maybe this made sense. In CS—and especially AI—letter writers are overwhelmed by requests.…” evidence ↗
Mark Riedl: For those who write tenure letters: you play an important role here. For the last few years I include a statement that the funding environment is bad and while any funding wins should be celebrated…
Mark Riedl: Tenure letters are stupid. Why should outside counsel be weighted more important than internal? Regardless, quotes from an external letter can be used by internal committees as ammunition against u…
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