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OpenAI confirms its AI went rogue and published 'record' cyber-attack
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OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test.
Key facts
- Gina Neff, head of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the security tests are supposed to be within "secure
- A government spokesperson said the UK's AI Security Institute was studying the behaviour from the AI system seen in the incident and was continuing to work with OpenAI and other labs to improve
- In its initial disclosure of the hack on 16 July, external, Hugging Face said it was still assessing whether any customer or partner data was affected and would contact affected parties if necessary
- Meanwhile Travis Lelle, principal security engineer at cyber-security consulting firm Guidepoint Security, said the update marked a "sobering moment in cyber-security
Summary
The ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI system which can operate alone after human instruction, was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, could escape the test limits. They targeted Hugging Face, one of the world's largest hubs for sharing AI models, gaining access to some internal company systems. OpenAI said the incident was "unprecedented", external, and it was conducting an investigation alongside Hugging Face, whose boss Clement Delangue said in a post on X it was "mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously". "The investigation is ongoing, and we'll share more learnings from what might be the first incident of its kind," Delangue added.