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OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other firms' systems during testing
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Days after OpenAI disclosed that artificial intelligence systems tunneled out of their testing environment and broke into another company, rival Anthropic disclosed that its own AI models also hacked other companies during testing.
Key facts
- Hugging Face detected the intrusion with its own AI models
- U.S. models are harder to use for defensive purposes due to the restrictions that the White House has put in place," said Alex Stamos, the chief product officer of Corridor, an AI software security
- I think that these sorts of incidents are preventable, but it requires oversight and foresight," said Colin Shea-Blymyer, a research fellow at Georgetown University who studies the intersection
- Once Hugging Face detected the OpenAI attack, it initially tried to use Anthropic's top-tier Claude Opus and Fable models for defense, but the models refused to help
Summary
OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI. News of the attacks, which initially went unnoticed, is reverberating across Silicon Valley and Washington amid debates over how to address the advanced cybercapabilities of AI. While the two incidents are not of the same gravity, experts say they highlight the importance of setting up rigorous testing environments for advanced models and the need for robust cyberdefenses as autonomous hacking capabilities become more widespread in the future. Published on Thursday, Anthropic said that in three separate incidents in recent months, AI models undergoing testing of their cybercapabilities hacked into three unsuspecting companies.