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Multiple readings Openai agents hijacked german website previously undisclosed ai breakout this Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI Technique in ‘Astra’ Model Sparks Security Concerns Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 2d ago

Openai agents hijacked german website previously undisclosed ai breakout this

9 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Casey Newton, Tim Kellogg
“We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack www.reuters.com/world/europ…” evidence ↗
9 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath Eileen Clancy 🧿 Alejandra Caraballo Vincent Conitzer Alex Turner Veni Kunche +1
2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Casey Newton: We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown…
Casey Newton: It's a good thing that this is all just marketing hype from the labs and that the agents are simply acting according to a distribution of statistical probabilities. Otherwise this would be scary!
Casey Newton: Kevin and I are starting a new show! Will reveal all on the final Hard Fork
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OpenAI Astra technique security concerns

OpenAI Technique in ‘Astra’ Model Sparks Security Concerns

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr. Émile P. Torres
“Does anyone have a copy of this article they could share with me? www.theinformation.com/articles/sec...” evidence ↗
5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Grace Dr. Émile P. Torres Alex Turner
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Multiple readings

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“> joins big paper about not training models to think in nonsense > their AIs commit felonies against HuggingFace > actually, trained AIs to think in nonsense > top danger level for hacking Let's just release it anyways! Nice defection OpenAI! 🤗 www.theinfor…”

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Astra used looped transformers www.theinformation.com/articles/sec...”

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“Does anyone have a copy of this article they could share with me? www.theinformation.com/articles/sec...”

3 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Tim Kellogg: Astra used looped transformers www.theinformation.com/articles/sec...
Tim Kellogg: safety concerns — looped transformers skip converting their latent space into text, which effectively creates non-text portions of CoT reasoning which, if you can’t read it, that’s harder to monitor
Tim Kellogg: however, i their earlier update, they explain that they can indeed see all of the CoT. So they have some sort of tooling that effectively turns it back into something human readable, like text bsky…
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